leadership*web2.0*art: contemporary art and leadership: all I want you to...: "It was a big experiment - teaching leadership through contemporary art. Students clapping at the end, I guess it worked. 'All I want you to..."
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10/30/2010
contemporary art and leadership: all I want you to remember is "candy"
It was a big experiment - teaching leadership through contemporary art. Students clapping at the end, I guess it worked.
"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.
"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.
10/20/2010
landscapes of leadership
so here is my new course- starting this friday "landscapes of leadership" at Harvard Kennedy School
Have you ever been hiking- White mountains, Rockies, Appalachian?
So you have Landscape of mountains in front of you - where do you want to go?
While I was hiking across this Alpes this summer I was intending to go from Germany, crossing Austria to Italy.
You see all those different mountain groups..... Allgäu, Lech, Ötztal, etc Beautiful!!
But if you turn in the wrong mountain or valley - you end up in Switzerland, never leave Austria or return to Germany
....leave alone the different conditions and sudden weather changes - intense, burning sun, snow fall, pouring rain.....endangering your path
my approach is that leadership is the SAME way- it is just a cognitive map of the leadership landscape
So join me in the next few days....it is going to be fun!
first session I will teach with 11 conductor videos
a short sneak-preview:
session 2 is going to be with contemporary art and
session 3 will feature a skype in with Don Tapscott...
see you soon!
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