Conference 9th - 11th June

Leadership beyond the paradox of Control
- on the edge of Motivation
 

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As a part of Bramstrup Performing Arts 2005, Centre for Art & Leadership (CAL) will repeat last years integration of leadership development and academic research in the performing arts festival going on 8th – 12th June.

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The overall philosophical theme for CAL in 2005 is the notion of “The Event” (last year’s theme was “Authenticity”). Different agendas focusing leadership issues are formed on this basis integrating methods of Attitude, Sensing and Performance as CAL generally is known for.

Basic context
The concept of the leadership of the event, through which leaders are supported to release the tacit dimensions of the speech event, to use their whole range of inherent passions, and to make their personality really manifest itself, in our view perfectly matches experiences drawn from musical practice.

Music demands the development in the performer of a reflective attitude, sensitivity and style. As these qualities are generated during the performance in the listener too, we have got an interactive model very close to the models of dialogue developed by the discipline of rhetoric - both models of significant importance to anyone in a leadership role.

Musical performance can also serve as a laboratory for developing a new sensitivity to time in relation to the event. Timing, to stretch time, to fill time with content, to intensify without overdoing it, are all musical issues, directly transferable to the strategic universe of leadership.

Workshop on Control - 9th June

Every leader of today is aware of the limits of Control as a management tool in the organization. Using the counterpoint – Inspiration – marks a complete shift of management attitude, but raises a huge number of new questions to solve for both leaders and employees. The paradigms of the industrial and post-industrial management must change, but how can the organizations reduce the level of control without losing focus and strategy?
“Being in control” is another angle worth studying in the musical performance, and reaching for the necessary balance between power and force will give some answers in this discussion.
 

Workshop on Motivation - 10th June

Large parts of the modern, globalized society development is facing a change from fee-orientated concepts of motivation to a voluntary, artistically comparable shaped demand from people in the organization to use their lives being individually creative and have impact on the surroundings.
Modern organizations need to focus the challenge from both stiffened routine and loose commitment from members of the organization, where payment is not enough.
Today, both organizations and performing arts must deal with inner entrepreneurship, prima donnas, free riders etc. Comparisons with the inner world of music ensembles as the performing organization will show a way to go.
 

Speakers and Performers

• Ole Fogh Kirkeby, Professor, Dr. Phil., Copenhagen Business School
   
• Pierre Guillet de Monthoux,  Professor, Dr. Phil., Stockholm University
   
• Robert Austin, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
   
• Paul Robertson (U.K.), Violinist og Professor
   
• Maren Stoot (U.K.), baroque dancer
   
• Peter Hanke, Conductor
   
• Voces Copenhagen, Chamber Choir
   
• European ensemble