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The illusion of leadership : directing creativity in business and the arts /

By: Publication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.Description: ix, 157 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780230201996
  • 0230201997
  • 9780230202009
  • 0230202004
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD53 .I23 2008
Contents:
Chapter 1 Creativity -- Myths and Legends 5 -- Chapter 2 The Illusion of Leadership 9 -- Directing creativity 9 -- Poets, fakes and sleeping lions 10 -- The gaze 11 -- Creative constraints and how to use them 12 -- The leadership illusion 15 -- Directing vs. managing -- the Russian experiment 16 -- Why setting targets is a waste of time 19 -- The uncarved block 21 -- Chapter 3 Project-Managing a Work of Art 22 -- The (misty) vision thing 25 -- The perfect audience of one 26 -- Chapter 4 Great Directing: A Case Study 30 -- Rehearsing King Lear 31 -- Chapter 5 Hierarchy and Status Games 35 -- Visiting India 35 -- Playing status 37 -- The giant's robe on the dwarfish thief 39 -- Hierarchy and status: the tree-house game 43 -- Briefing the general 44 -- Sex and status games: invisible women 47 -- Is dissembling a sin? 49 -- Chapter 6 Masks and the Sense of Self 51 -- The immutable self 51 -- Clowns and ringmasters: training the masked actor 54 -- Being Badger 58 -- Chapter 7 Creativity in Groups 63 -- Weird produces wonderful: casting for creativity 63 -- Hair-washing and the puppy game 64 -- My grandmother's hat 67 -- The Three Fears 69 -- Suspending status games: the creative ensemble 70 -- Chapter 8 Creativity, Innovation and Leadership 74 -- Men in tights and old music: the paradox of innovation in the arts 74 -- The solitary plagiarist 75 -- Casting and diversity: the concentric organization 77 -- What play are we in? 79 -- Stars and bit-players 81 -- Too many Hamlets 82 -- Fake creativity 83 -- Chapter 9 Live Communication: The Business of Theater 85 -- Being self-conscious 86 -- Words and actions 87 -- The usefulness of Chinese whispers 90 -- Communication styles 92 -- Chapter 10 Giving Presentations: The Theater of Business 94 -- Bridging the gap 95 -- Acting on -- acting out: live communication as action 96 -- Pity the poor punters: the passive audience 97 -- Chapter 11 The Script 101 -- Euro-blather, business-speak and other languages 101 -- The telling detail: rediscovering the power of words 105 -- Truth, lies and presentations 108 -- Chapter 12 Rehearsing for Business and for Life 110 -- Image theater as a tool for organizations 111 -- The trap of ambiguity 113 -- Case study: the shooting party 116 -- Chapter 13 Training for Creative Leadership 119 -- Apprenticeship, mastery and transcendence 119 -- Chapter 14 Art in the World 125 -- Audacity and risk-taking 125 -- Being bold 126 -- Chapter 15 Why Artists Should Rule the World 129 -- The problem of giraffeness 130 -- Leading with a misty vision 131 -- Keeping God out of the picture 133 -- The selfishness myth 135 -- The influence of sleeping lions 136 -- "Author, Author!!" 137 -- Donald Rumsfeld -- a cautionary tale 139 -- Ruskin's question 143.
Summary: People need a degree of free choice for creativity and change to happen. But they must also have boundaries. On one level this is what politics and business are all about. Too much of the wrong sort of control and the system becomes bureaucratic or tyrannical, too little and it becomes arbitrary and chaotic. This book covers these key issues surrounding leadership.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1 Creativity -- Myths and Legends 5 -- Chapter 2 The Illusion of Leadership 9 -- Directing creativity 9 -- Poets, fakes and sleeping lions 10 -- The gaze 11 -- Creative constraints and how to use them 12 -- The leadership illusion 15 -- Directing vs. managing -- the Russian experiment 16 -- Why setting targets is a waste of time 19 -- The uncarved block 21 -- Chapter 3 Project-Managing a Work of Art 22 -- The (misty) vision thing 25 -- The perfect audience of one 26 -- Chapter 4 Great Directing: A Case Study 30 -- Rehearsing King Lear 31 -- Chapter 5 Hierarchy and Status Games 35 -- Visiting India 35 -- Playing status 37 -- The giant's robe on the dwarfish thief 39 -- Hierarchy and status: the tree-house game 43 -- Briefing the general 44 -- Sex and status games: invisible women 47 -- Is dissembling a sin? 49 -- Chapter 6 Masks and the Sense of Self 51 -- The immutable self 51 -- Clowns and ringmasters: training the masked actor 54 -- Being Badger 58 -- Chapter 7 Creativity in Groups 63 -- Weird produces wonderful: casting for creativity 63 -- Hair-washing and the puppy game 64 -- My grandmother's hat 67 -- The Three Fears 69 -- Suspending status games: the creative ensemble 70 -- Chapter 8 Creativity, Innovation and Leadership 74 -- Men in tights and old music: the paradox of innovation in the arts 74 -- The solitary plagiarist 75 -- Casting and diversity: the concentric organization 77 -- What play are we in? 79 -- Stars and bit-players 81 -- Too many Hamlets 82 -- Fake creativity 83 -- Chapter 9 Live Communication: The Business of Theater 85 -- Being self-conscious 86 -- Words and actions 87 -- The usefulness of Chinese whispers 90 -- Communication styles 92 -- Chapter 10 Giving Presentations: The Theater of Business 94 -- Bridging the gap 95 -- Acting on -- acting out: live communication as action 96 -- Pity the poor punters: the passive audience 97 -- Chapter 11 The Script 101 -- Euro-blather, business-speak and other languages 101 -- The telling detail: rediscovering the power of words 105 -- Truth, lies and presentations 108 -- Chapter 12 Rehearsing for Business and for Life 110 -- Image theater as a tool for organizations 111 -- The trap of ambiguity 113 -- Case study: the shooting party 116 -- Chapter 13 Training for Creative Leadership 119 -- Apprenticeship, mastery and transcendence 119 -- Chapter 14 Art in the World 125 -- Audacity and risk-taking 125 -- Being bold 126 -- Chapter 15 Why Artists Should Rule the World 129 -- The problem of giraffeness 130 -- Leading with a misty vision 131 -- Keeping God out of the picture 133 -- The selfishness myth 135 -- The influence of sleeping lions 136 -- "Author, Author!!" 137 -- Donald Rumsfeld -- a cautionary tale 139 -- Ruskin's question 143.

People need a degree of free choice for creativity and change to happen. But they must also have boundaries. On one level this is what politics and business are all about. Too much of the wrong sort of control and the system becomes bureaucratic or tyrannical, too little and it becomes arbitrary and chaotic. This book covers these key issues surrounding leadership.

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