By S. Taylor
Taylor leads readers via creativity and how it relates to leadership followed by the 5 phases of thought at the back of the assumption: 1) training, 2) time-off (or incubation), three) the spark, four) choice, and five) elaboration.
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Mania! Mania! Mania! Mania! Mania! Mania! Mania! Mania! Mania! Mania! WALKER I hated quality. ) JOE It’s not for everyone. Pick out your partner and join in the fun, the Pennsylvania Polka. WALKER Well, I’ve enjoyed talking with you. We’ll be in touch shortly. ) JOE Thank you. (Walker exits. ) Everybody has a mania, to do the polka from Pennsylvania! 44 Leadership Craft, Leadership Art well. It doesn’t feel like I am imagining something new, but rather that I am trying to make sense of and express my own felt sense of the horrible job interview.
I have come to believe that the difference has to do with what artists call “being open to the work” and recognizing the sparks, but more on that in chapter 3. Having selected a spark, the next stage is elaboration—the crafting and doing part of the process. In modern times we seem to value the elaboration less than the spark. Andy Warhol was known for having the idea for a work of art and then having one of his assistants carry out the actual making of the piece. The same was true for Michelangelo.
This begs the questions: What are the craft skills of leadership? What are the techniques of leadership? We have a wealth of answers to these questions in the vast writings on the subject; and there are a variety of particular answers in the leadership competency models that have dominated so much of the leadership development world in recent times. 8 This model includes twenty-four different competencies, which are grouped into six dimensions: ● ● ● ● ● ● Self-mastery (self-consciousness, self-development, self-discipline, self-authorization), Futuring (foresight, strategic action, out/in communication, intention), Sense Making (integrative thinking, disciplined inquiry, in/out communication, pattern recognition), Design of Intelligent Action (perspective, sensibility, stabilizing and destabilizing strategies, commitment), Aligning People to Action (creating capacity, engaging others, understanding others, attracting resources), Adaptive Learning (ref lexive learning, creating generative space, recognizing challenges, leveraging forward knowledge).
