Bekijk de powerpointpresenatie van dr. Eliat Aram, ter ere van Sioo's, jubileumevent 'Sioo Next 60'. Bijbehorende audio? https://soundcloud.com/user-97872026/sioo-next-60-podcast-1

1. ©The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Leadership,
Love and
Aesthetics:
Celebrating 60 years of Sioo-action
Eliat Aram

2. that constitute ethical/aesthetic leadership:
• Owning the enterprise of which we are part;
• Taking authorship and acknowledging our love for our
work and those we work with and for;
• Working with our reluctance and the fear around
these.
The 3 threads
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3. Our reluctance and fear
Fear of:
• Accountability -
• [too much] Freedom -
• Love -
Dependency
[loss of] Control
[impact of] Love

4. Accountability vs Dependency
• a habit that we have developed in our
language and thought, of attributing direct
agency to groups, leading us to think of
them as objects, as things.
Griffin ‘The Emergence of Leadership’ (2002)
• Our understanding of organisations is made
up of different sets of pre-conceptions,
assumptions and myths.

5. Invitation from the complexity
sciences
to hold in mind both a hierarchy with
a clear line of accountability…
…and enabling co-producing and
participative engagement

6. Freedom vs Control
• When we think about organisations as social
constructs we are then bound to examine
our own accountability in creating those
organisations within which we operate.
They are not separate from us.
• We have the authority over that which we
complain about or feel the victim of.

7. Freedom
• Authority is the embodied experience,
when meaning emerges;
• when we have a sense that we are
authors of our own actions - freedom

8. Authority vs Control
• Authority is an action taken up with
integrity, through the understanding of
the complexity of role and purpose
• whereas the use of power and control
draws more directly on hierarchical or
financial strength or weakness

9. Love vs [the impact of] Love
“…… work is more than mere labour.
Biblical Hebrew has 2 words to express
the difference:
Melachah is work as creation, and
Avodah is work as service or servitude

10. “Melachah is the arena in which we transform
the world and thus become, in the striking
rabbinic phrase, ‘partners with God in the
work of creation’.
God deliberately left the world unfinished so
that it could be completed by the work of
human beings.”
The Dignity of Difference, Jonathan Sacks (2002)

11. Love is:
• Complex and paradoxical
• The fuel that drives us
• Scary - for it triggers our
dependency
• Messy and shameful

12. Aesthetic Leadership:
• A frame of mind of abundance
• Potential for creating is infinite
• Together, with our interdependencies, our
capacities are boundless
• Not utopian: with challenge, disagreement
and dissent
• With imperfections and blind spots
• Purposeful and compassionate

13. Aesthetic Leadership:
• Holding paradoxical aspects
together in creative tension, not in
attempting to resolve or avoid
those tensions
• Works with, not against, not
knowing, uncertainty, ambiguity,
frailty

14. Don’t be afraid..
• To love and be accountable
• Of not knowing
• To know you can..

15. Find your courage:
Have the guts to ask stupid questions
To take risks

16. Letting go
• the ultimate act of love
• abundance of freedom
• Making sense to people in their own bodies
and work experiences,
• Making it their own and applying the ideas
to their own practice

17. But it isn’t and doesn’t have to be
so…
• ‘It is lonely up there at the top’, is a
commonplace statement leaders hear
when they take up the role.

18. The aesthetics of work –
our ethics
• Ongoing process of negotiating between the
dependency and autonomy; boundary of
contact and our practice
• its beauty becomes known to us only when
we keep our questions and negotiations
alive
• and when we vigorously search for
uniqueness and freshness in each of our
encounters.

19. Leadership as the Art of
Experience
Art is one of the conditions of human life
“Every work of art causes the receiver to enter
into a certain kind of relationship…It is upon
this capacity of man to receive another man’s
expression of feelings and experience those
feelings himself, that the activity of art is
based.” (Tolstoy, 1897)

20. A Leadership Attitude:
‘being artistically engaged’
(Dewey, 1934)
Participating in the social process of
interaction in the living present, without
presuming a capacity to step out of, or
beyond, or aside from, the interaction.

21. Our art of work:
• Our pursuit for social relevance
• Our quest for impact and applicability
• A passionate and thoughtful pursuit
• Evoking the aesthetic experience that we
can then call aesthetic leadership
LOVE

22. Happy birthday Sioo –
may you continue to grow from strength to strength