"All I want you to remember at the end of this class is: CANDY", I told them.
I believe neuroscience taught us a lot about how we retrieve cognitive knowledge. And just forget about all these frameworks and knowledge you are trying to sizzle into your brain! save your time, it will not stick. at least most of it. So here is the idea to create and take a "trigger"--one you have experienced and when you think of it bridges all the knowledge...and boom, when you are in a situation there it is back again when you need it!
Here it is the art piece- Felix Gonzalez Torres, Placebo:
Key was to connect the discussion around the painting with two axes
1) the vertical axes: looking at art and problems/issues on multiple levels: firstly, the superficial "technical level" where symptoms play out, people refer to something on the surface; second the aesthetical/emotional level and last but not least the political, "real"level- what is it really going on? in leadership frameworks it is also referred to "adaptive" level (Heifetz)
2) the horizontal axes: imagine you are sitting around a table or in an organization and you hear all those different factions speak: the "expert" faction, knowing a lot about the piece; the "student" faction, genuinely interested and asking questions; the "pretenders" faction - "very interesting", you know what I mean; and then there is the "saboteur" faction who tells you that anybody could put together a bunch of candy or in an organizational context try to take things off the table by saying "that we have been discussing this already so many times".
What makes it relevant and stick- that everybody is moved about such art piece- in one or the other way.
and that they therefore can retrieve this information when they just think about one thing next time:
"CANDY".
Next week- leadership and evolving web with Don Tapscott skyping in!
leadership*web2.0*art- vibes from Cambridge, MA.
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