ONE members focus on understanding external spaces (the natural
environment). But understanding nature requires a deeper appreciation of
internal spaces - sensory and emotional spaces. So here is a All Academy
Symposium on at the 2008 Academy meeting in Anaheim that focuses on
feeling and emotionally learning management skills - "Managing with
Passion- A dialogue in Tango and Art" on Monday 3.30-5.30 in Grand
Ballroom Salon E. Here is a brief description:
Questions that organizational scholars ask deal with making
organizations more rational, productive, and humane, in an instrumental
way. They have ignored aesthetic inquiry, and sensory, embodied and
tacit knowledge that can make organizations more passionate, artistic,
beautiful and happy. In our age of reason, “passion” is suspect,
denounced as being dangerous, irrational, crazy and extremist.
Ironically, no great human feat was ever accomplished without passion.
And, great leaders, successful entrepreneurs, and politicians have
always been passionate about their causes and companies.
In the context of organizations, passion refers to the holistic and
intense intellectual, physical, and emotional engagement of goals. This
symposium is designed for audiences to witness and experience passion in
an embodied way, and explore its relevance for managing and organizing.
We use Argentine Tango and Visual Arts to express an embodied
understanding of passion for learning managerial skills of
improvisation, leadership/followership, teamwork, and communication.
Through aesthetics of physical space, music, painting, and dance we hope
to convey passion as a form of knowing about managerial and leadership
issues.
Participants and commentators will engage the audience on passion in
organizations, including the role of arts-based processes for supporting
that passion, parallels between the questions that great artists ask and
the questions that good leaders, entrepreneurs and managers need to ask
today. They will provoke a discussion on asking different questions
about organizations and organizing. Audience can explore relationships
between Tango/painting and organizationally relevant inquiry. As an
added experience we offer a 30-minute beginner lesson in Tango.**
For list of participants (surprise) go to
http://program.aomonline.org/2008/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=1040
Paul Shrivastava, Ph.D.
Tel 610-737-7333
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/shrivast