My take is that I have never seen anyone explicitly argue against embodied leadership. However, there is an implicit argument that embodiment isn’t important when we conceptualize leadership with no reference to embodiment. So in the way that so much of management conceptualizes management as being fundamentally a process of making decisions with our brains (a very cognitive and generally unembodied view), much of leadership conceptualizes leadership with no or little reference to bodies. So for me, the argument against embodied approaches to leadership is that talking about the role of embodiment in leadership processes in anything resembling a scientific, analytic way is really, really hard (read some Merleau Ponty and tell me that its anything other than hard). So, in short the opponent of embodied leadership is the enlightenment project to bring rigorous scientific approaches to social processes – or to put it another way, I blame Descartes! Cogito ergo sum my ass.
Cheers,
Steve
Steven S. Taylor, PhD
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From: ACORN <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of "Matzdorf, Fides" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Date: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 4:21 AM
To: ACORN <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Harsh critics of embodied leadership?
Dear AACORNers,
Do you know of any explicit opponents to 'embodied leadership' and 'embodied leadership learning' concepts? I've searched, but can't find any...
Or would 'opposition' in this case simply amount to 'ignore that lot'? ;)
I'm relatively new to this field, so forgive my ignorance...
All the best,
Fides
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