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Dear Daved, Thank you very much for sending us Nancy's article. Although most of us probably read the AMLE it is always nice to print out something that we should not miss. Nancy has come far in integrating art into leadership learning, in knowing what others think about it and telling others, and also as an artist herself - in writing and painting. Two of her beautiful paintings in watercolor hang at IEDC Bled, Slovenia! With kindest regards Danica Purg ________________________________ From: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Daved Barry Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 11:48 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Art Leadership and Nancy Adler Hi Everyone, Nancy Adler just came out with a lovely, uplifting piece on Art and Leadership in the Academy of Management Learning and Education (2006: 5/4: 486-499). Given David Atkinson's and Mary Jo Hatch's recent posts (leader as artist literature), I think the paper is quite relevant and well worth reading. I'm attaching it here (hope that's okay Nancy!-and Ken, sorry, I know attachments screw up the digest format, but bear with me this time). Thanks for writing this one Nancy-you've managed to pull a lot of important threads together. Very importantly, I think the paper legitimizes and mainstreams artistic perspectives much more (which is certainly a boon for those of us trying to bring these perspectives into MBA land). In some ways, I think the paper itself is a piece of art-you've taken the ethereal, esoteric perspective of art and upended it into a solid foundational platform, not just for the business world, but for the political and human-kindness world. It's peppery prose reads as a kind of call-to-arms (arms that paint and play), and I for one feel quite inspired by it. Daved