Embodied Leadership Practised by Non - Europeans.
Maori tattoo and social status
Only people of rank or status were allowed to have, and could afford to have, tattoos. A person who did not have any high-ranking social status, such as a slave, could not have a face tattoo. Those who had the means to get a tattoo but did not were seen as people of lower social status.
The Maori facial tattoo was not only seen as a sign of rank though, but was also used as a kind of identification card. For men, their face tattoo showed their accomplishments, status, position, ancestry and marital status. It is considered highly insulting to be unable to recognise a person’s power and position by his moko.
https://www.google.com.au/search?biw=1600&bih=738&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Maori+Tattoos&oq=Maori+Tattoos&gs_l=img.3...0.0.0.242060.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..64.img..0.0.0.ARf2jwmzBvE
or Google - Google Images Maori Tattoos
Ralph
From: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arlene Goldbard
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Subject: Re: Harsh critics of embodied leadership?
Yes, it’s ridiculously simplistic to make such claims for mere exposure to or possession of art objects, let alone the art world. But it’s quite another thing to say that art-making and other such interactive, embodied practices can increase awareness of the importance of bringing all dimensions of the human subject into leadership (or for that matter, participation in any social enterprise).
Speaking for my own work, the underlying idea is that direct participation can expand awareness, and that can lead to an expansion of empathy, and other capacities. There is much evidence for this, and I’ve written quite a bit about it. I haven’t seen anyone on this list making the point that it will make people good, which is the hypothesis your listing of evil collectors seems to be refuting. I’d like to think that embodiment (or art-collecting, or almost anything else) leads to personal virtue, but sadly, there is no evidence for it.
It seems to me problematic to say that art will change the way that people understand
the embodiment of leadership. There is far too much evidence that powerful but evil
leaders have been among the world's great collectors, connoisseurs, and patrons. You've
got to wonder. Who it is that has made eight-figure paintings commonplace. Who it is that
shifts money through art storage freeports? Why do so many people named in the Panama
Papers have major art collections? What reason is there to believe that art makes today's
leaders any better than art made the Borgias, the slaveholding aristocrats of the Americas
(North or South), or the Elector Princes of the Holy Roman Empire?
As someone who has been an artist and observed the art world at first hand, it's a
reasonable question. I'm just saying, is all.
Ken Friedman
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Ah but THAT was my point AG
The poem was a response to the hyper intellectual approach to the issue.
It is ART that will change the way people understand the embodiment of leadership.
Getting people to feel who they in collaboration with those who they work with is a powerful step towards understanding the empathy needed to lead effectively.
On Apr 15, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Arlene Goldbard wrote:
Perhaps it would be useful to have a slightly less heady discussion of embodiment, in a slightly different vein than Michael has offered. Surely one of the points of this work is to enable human beings to bring themselves whole into professional and institutional settings, rather than going along with the too-common operating assumption that body, emotion, and spirit are left outside the door. When I give talks on this subject, I ask this question: What’s the worst thing you can do in a boardroom? The women generally answer first, and all it takes is one word: “Cry.” The critique of embodiment doesn’t have to be stated; it’s the default setting most of the time. Much more on this in my books The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future and The Wave.
Waur=Worse
On 15 Apr 2016 19:22, "prem saran" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
As a retired member of the Indian Administrative Service (which mans the top leadership positions in the Government of India), with an MBA from the elite Indian Institute of Management Calcutta as well as a self-reflexive [i.e. practising adept's] Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of California [Routledge, 2006] on the "embodied"/"somaesthetic" [vide the eponymous book by Richard Shusterman, "Thinking Through the Body", Cambridge University Press, 2012] as also high-philosophical Indic discipline of Tantra, I found your and David's responses to be the most sensible [sic].
(Dr. Prem Saran, IAS (Retd)
Comin thro' the Rye
BY ROBERT BURNS
Comin thro' the rye, poor body,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie
Oh Jenny 's a' weet poor body
She draigl't a' her petticoatie
Gin a body meet a body, comin thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body, need a body cry;
Ilka body has a body, ne'er a ane hae I;
But a' the lads they loe me, and what the waur am I.
Gin a body meet a body, comin frae the well,
Gin a body kiss a body, need a body tell;
Ilka body has a body, ne'er a ane hae I,
But a the lads they loe me, and what the waur am I.
Gin a body meet a body, comin frae the town,
Gin a body kiss a body, need a body gloom;
Ilka Jenny has her Jockey, ne'er a ane hae I,
But a' the lads they loe me, and what the waur am I.
On Apr 15, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Neelands, Jonothan wrote:
Maybe we need to distinguish between the body that is the leader and the use of the body in leadership and strategy. Define different senses of the term embodied leadership so that we can see what people might be against? J
Jonothan Neelands PhD, DSc, FRSA.
Associate Dean Creativity | Warwick Business School
| University of Warwick
Research Lead | Executive Bid Committee Coventry 2021
Coventry City of Culture 2021
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Jolly interesting question. Might be that "embodied leadership" is a bit of a tautology. You can't have leadership without there being a body to do the leading.The same might be said of friendship, so difficult to argue against.
I have had conversations with data analysts and quants who say they would be happy to have algorithms making the important decisions because they are free from emotional and cognitive bias and can access vastly more data to collect evidence for their choices. They are comfortable with robot leaders but not really "against" embodied ones. Processes like six sigma and 360 degree feedback could be viewed as attempts to make leadership more detached and mechanical to avoid the dangers of narcissism and despotism that come with a focus on the "embodied self" as the leader. You could also argue that "embodied leadership" is inherently anti-democratic and puts the acts of the leader above the decisions of the collective arrived at through debate.
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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...
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