The Intelligent Eye – The Art of Leadership When Facing Challenges

Published by Gunnar Westling, February 7, 2011. 2 responses.

Over the last years, we at Fram have occasionally used art as a way to provoke managers to think in new ways about important business challenges.

According to David Perkins in his excellent book “the intelligent eye”, most of us just quickly “surf” art 30 seconds when looking at an image at galleries or museums. In short, this means that we just further reinforce our thinking about the world and ourself within it. But, if we force ourselves to really interact with a peace of art for several minutes, we often need to confront our own thinking about important matters.
To begin to view art and take the risk of coming up with new thinking and seeing about a matter of importance to you, use this guide.

Much along the same line, an interesting article was published on Feb 6 in the Swedish newspaper “Dagens Nyheter”. In the article, an experiment by Julia Romanowska at Karolinska Institute was described, where music and poetry showed a lot stronger positive effect on leadership than traditional leadership courses. Here´s a link to the article.

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