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Hi Marja, I am very interested in your experience! I would very much like to hear more about what happened and to read your interpretation when it is finished. This sounds like a familiar journey to me and a very good potential case-study for looking at Arts interventions in business. Do you have an outline yet, of your experience? Do please keep me informed. All the very best, Piers Ibbotson Principal Teaching Fellow wbsCreate Warwick Business School [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Marja Soila-Wadman <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 22 April 2016 10:27 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Taking it back to Harsh critics of embodied leadership? Hi all, Thank you all for an inspiring discussion. Not at least as I get some extra fuel when I’m just now struggling with my interpretations and writings of a one year long artistic intervention project which I followed, about 30 workshops once a week. A trade union wanted to become more creative in their daily routines and increase their membership numbers. The artist told about an ambition to develop an exploring attitude and open working practices in the participating group. Thereby the idea of ‘art is about practice’, ‘making’ which would be followed by seeing more and acting differently, would be there. However, the great clash concerning the different mindsets, interpretations of the goals of the project, etc. in one phase of the project almost got it stuck. Frustrations in the participating group, and the artist felt she was kidnapped by the organizational requirements. The story continues … Best, Marja Marja Soila-Wadman, PhD, Assistant Professor School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg Box 610, SE 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden Visiting adress Vasagatan 1 +46 31 7861 555, +46 727 17 88 23 (mobile) e-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.handels.gu.se<http://www.handels.gu.se>; www.bdl.gu.se<http://www.bdl.gu.se> From: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martin Wood Sent: den 21 april 2016 07:09 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Taking it back to Harsh critics of embodied leadership? Dear friends Unlike some of you, I've not had the opportunity to follow these discussions until now - mid-semester is a bit manic - but I've just had an enjoyable lunch catching up. On embodiment, I must agree with Wendelin. Much work in the constructionistand post- orientation still fails to unite the body with reality (by which I mean lived experience, present in the form of feeling/sensation). For example, recently I read an article on the processual approach in entrepreneurship - by three friends, Mssrs. Hjorth, Holt and Steyaert (2015). As much as they rightly critique a mainstream tradition still very much grounded in a fixing of things - entities -; as methodological approach searching for stable relationships between things, I still find they are 'standing on the bank, casting their conceptual nets from there onto the fluid world' in a way that belies the very embodied nature of what they aim to explain: their bodies (my body) still is 'cut asunder' from the world. So yes, to an extent 'we' are still not gaining enough traction in bodily mediated and embodied practice. And here, I come to Ralph's reflections about being an arts practitioner and an academic at the same time. Like you, I firmly believe that a convergence between the culturally arts and academic sciences can enable us to engage more fully with approaches concerned with the absorption of living embodiment. Following our wish to encourage the production and spread of knowledge in areas that seem to be at odds with the very idea of research or considered trivial from the relatively categorical university standpoint, we must also accept that stable and safe banks are no longer available to us. Our deliberately multi-disciplinary approach blurs the boundary between theory and practice and no hard distinction is sustained between thinking and doing. On the problem, raised by Piers, of assessing the output of creative work in an academic context, I think we can do more than present our research findings through creative-media methods. Here, I agree with Arlene, the common challenge is precisely to surmount the 'institutional realpolitik'. Maybe there is a tension between the artist and the academy, or an issue about how to approach the critical review of this work for assessment (David), but it is time that we engage more fully with this. In my own work, I have taken up a somewhat polemical engagement with what are at present the domination characterisations of written research outputs in the social sciences. In particular, I've been making the case for the value and importance of research- led films and videos—where the film contains rather than merely records an argument; the possibility that film can actually do research rather than merely presenting findings. This is the point I make in a 2015 piece for the Journal of Cultural Economy http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2014.942346<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2014.942346> I argue provide an opportunity to empower the social sciences in a new form of research; one that involves a commitment to promote public engagement - a move from the narrow debate of public impact epitomised by the (meaningless?) audit culture and marketisation in higher education. Thank you for the leisure - and pleasure - to think during lunchtime Best wishes Martin On 21 April 2016 at 13:27, Michael Gold <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Lest we leave the issue of embodied leadership without a word from a truly enlightened researcher: https://youtu.be/XIzTdXdhU0w Michael Gold, Ph.D. Jazz Impact 612 701 6046 www.jazz-impact.com<http://www.jazz-impact.com> On Apr 15, 2016, at 4:21 AM, Matzdorf, Fides wrote: 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | (Ms) F Matzdorf MA FHEA | Senior Research Fellow | Sheffield Business School | Sheffield S1 1WB | Tel. 0114-225 3892 | E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | https://shu.academia.edu/FidesMatzdorf - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Professor Martin Wood HDR Coordinator School of Management RMIT University Building 80 Level 8 445 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia T: + 61 (0)3 9925 5675 E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Homepage: http://prodedit.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=tackdwabnwkb1 Selected recent publications Wood, M. (2016) On Norms and Their Transgression in Serious Leisure: Two Case Studies from Rock Climbing. Culture and Organization, 22/3: forthcoming. DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2016.1157803 Wood, M., and M. Dibben (2015) Leadership as Relational Process. Process Studies, 44/1: 24-47. DOI: 10.5840/process20154412 Wood, M. (2015) Audio-visual production and shortcomings of distribution in organisation studies. Journal of Cultural Economy, 8/4: 462-478. DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.942346 [http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/8057659/Wordle]