The Artists' Mind

Our colleague Steve Taylor created this fascinating slide show from notes and images after a Visual Explorer session at the University of Bath, at a workshop he did on the topic Artists' Mind.




Also, take a look at Steve's presentation on Creative Leadership given at Cranfield University, May 27th, 2008.

In this presentation, we will explore the possibility of approaching leadership as a creative or artistic process. I apply an action based conception of creativity (Sawyer, 2007; Sawyer, 2006) to the domain of leadership to develop the concept of creative leadership as a basis for an art of leadership (e.g. Duke, 1986; Grint, 2001; Hatch, Kostera, & Kozminski, 2004; Samier & Bates, 2006). Conceptually, this implies that the key facets of creative leadership are that it :1) requires double domain knowledge, 2) uses an artist's mind / approach, 3) is authentic, and 4) is participatory. -- Steven S. Taylor, Ph.D.

References

Duke, D. L. 1986. The aesthetics of leadership. Educational Administration Quarterly, 22(1): 7-27.
Grint, K. 2001. The arts of leadership. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hatch, M. J., Kostera, M., & Kozminski, A. K. 2004. The three faces of
leadership: Artist, manager, priest. London: Blackwell.
Samier, E. A., & Bates, R. J. (Eds.). 2006. Aesthetic dimensions of educational and administrative leadership. New York: Routledge.
Sawyer, K. 2007. Group Genius: The creative power of collaboration. New
York: Basic Books.
Sawyer, R. K. 2006. Explaining creativity: The science of human innovation.
New York: Oxford University Press.