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Introduction
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Purpose
- The Centre for
Art & Leadership at Copenhagen Business School
has as its goal the fusion of philosophy and art
in order to capture and stimulate the creative
practices of management (business economics),
primarily in regard to leadership and
organisation, through the totality of its inner
contradictions, in order to develop a sensitivity
for the unity, the core, through which the secret
of its force is kept alive.
- The Centre for
Art & Leadership will provide new artistic forms
through which its findings are able to influence
leaders and their organisations. It aims at the
development of products and performances presented
by means of inter-media art. Its products and
performances will be developed in cooperation with
collaborating philosophers and artists, aiming at
a stimulation of the development of leadership
competences revealed by the perspective of CAL.
Through our research activities in conjunction
with the work of artists our goal is to develop
art-education for business leaders and their
organisations on the basis of sound knowledge. Our
method consists in doing philosophy in interaction
with art and artists. Our criterion of success is
to make results that enable leadership development
processes. We will not only communicate this
knowledge through educational programmes, but also
by symposiums, art events and regular counselling.
Philosophy is
fundamental to our approach.
A research program
connected with art and leadership, on the one hand
has to study art and leadership as forms of social
practise, and on the other hand has to analyse art
as a special type of activity using aesthetics to
generate knowledge. Still, its point of departure
has to be critical. “Critical” here means to be
conscious of the aesthetic preconditions and ethical
consequences of knowledge. This is why art has to be
moulded into and understood within a philosophical
frame (in the light of theoretical, practical and
aesthetic philosophy). But, beyond all judgements of
taste, “critical” also means to be particularly
discriminating in choosing works of art suitable for
this purpose.
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Neither science nor
technology, nor entrepreneurship, is able to give
sufficient counsel here. Only beauty can. Beauty
combines all the contradictions in the object of our
greatest fears — the indeterminable. That is why art
is of such enormous importance to us just now. Art
is the only practise that gathers experience and
courage in sufficient quantities to relate itself,
to relate our selves, to the indefinable. Art seizes
upon the enigma.
Art is a way in which hyper-modern man might protect
himself from himself.
Through all the untameable and terrifying shapes of
beauty, art makes it possible to recapture the brave
new world of our own creation every day, and by
preserving the enigma to recapture it in the name of
humanity.
”Beauty is a terrible and dreadful thing. It is
terrible, because it is almost impossible to
identify. All the things that God gave us are
enigmas. In the concept of beauty all contradictions
meet – here everything merges into one.” Fjodor
Dostojevski: The Brothers Karamassov, I.
Beauty reveals whether a decision was the right one.
Because beauty is the overcoat of the Good.
Improvisation is to give chance a chance, in the
light of a richly developed practical sensibility.
The real leader possesses a sense of reality,
challenging reality through a creative gesture that
transforms its very foundation.
The leader is the artist whose instrument is his own
experience.
The leader is conductor,
author, director, actor and audience,
at the very same time.
The good leader knows that written or verbal
commands can only be used at a time and at a place
where there is no room for dancing.
The real organisation has always been waiting as a
finished form inside the social and material
relations of the firm. It is the leader alone who is
able to urge us to remove the superfluous matter
through which we were hindered in seeing the beauty
of the sculptural form.
Centre for Art & Leadership welcomes your comments
and questions. Feel free to contact us.
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