Month: July 2016

The Age of Loneliness

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Goffman (1959) taught us how we could understand organizations as theatre. In his academic work Steve Taylor has been more interested in how plays are used within organizations (e.g. Nissley, Taylor, & Houden, 2004; Steven S. Taylor, 2000, 2003, 2008) as an example of a much larger movement of the use of arts-based methods within organizations (cf Steven S. Taylor & Ladkin, 2009). Alongside his academic work, Steve have written plays as a different way of thinking – even theorizing (Steven S. Taylor, 2000) – about organizations. Believing that artistic understanding embraces its inherent subjectivity and is well suited for making meaning in complex phenomena such as organizations.

Steve has debuted a play at AoMO conferences since 2002 and this year is no different! Saturday September 3rd 2016 sees the inaugural performance of The Age of Loneliness. In The Age of Loneliness, June, a young playwright struggles with what comes after her success with her play, The Adventures of Yahweh and Kapital (seen previously in, The Invisible Foot). Can Yahweh and Kapital get along, what sort of relationship will they have, can they survive in a post-growth world, should she even keep writing the play? If this truly is the end of the neo-liberal consensus, what comes next? Can an omnipotent, immortal die?

 

Steve Taylor’s Play at the Art of Management and Organization Conferences

The Age of Loneliness. 2016. Bled, Slovenia.

Through the Reading Glasses. 2014. Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Invisible Foot. 2012. York, England.

Cow Going Abstract. 2008. Banff, Canada.

Blasphemy & Doubt. 2006. Krakow, Poland.

Ties That Bind. 2004. Paris, France.

Soft Targets. 2002. London, England.

 

References

Goffman, Erving. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. New York: Doubleday.

Nissley, Nick, Taylor, Steven S., & Houden, Linda. (2004). The politics of performance in organizational theatre-based training and interventions. Organization Studies, 25(5), 817-840.

Taylor, Steven S. (2000). Aesthetic knowledge in academia:  Capitalist pigs at the academy of management. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(3), 304-328.

Taylor, Steven S. (2003). Knowing in your gut and in your head:  Doing theater and my underlying epistemology of communication. Management Communication Quarterly, 17(2), 272-279.

Taylor, Steven S. (2008). Theatrical Performance as Unfreezing: Ties That Bind at the Academy of Management. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17(4), 398-406.

Taylor, Steven S., & Ladkin, Donna. (2009). Understanding arts-based methods in managerial development. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 8(1), 55-69.

Thursday night (1st Sept) is music night @AoMO

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Miha Pogacnik

Miha Pogacnik is a visionary, a violinist and an exceptional virtuoso, both on the musical stage as well as on the management platform. He is the creative force behind cultural and diplomatic missions; his music is the medium for his thoughts and his vision development. Miha is actively engaged in cultural, business and political spheres as well as academia and civil society. His visions had led him to explore influence of formative principles of Art on evolution of society. It is his practical insight that creative environments need to be developed. On a raised resonance platform Art forces attract, “compose” and bind together different social fields. His method of interdisciplinary transfer from musical masterpieces to leadership and cultural development, inspiring scores of global companies such as Shell, Novartis, ING, Porsche, Nike and Microsoft, leading business schools, UN agencies and gatherings like Alpbach and the World Economic Forum.When on stage, his audiences experience the power of classical music on organizational transformation and his exceptional capacity to provoke “thinking out of the box”. Through his genius and deep insight into human existence, Pogačnik ’s methodology builds on powerful synergies between intellect and emotion as a crucial factor for true leadership and innovation.

On Thursday evening, in the beautiful surroundings of the town of Radovljica, you will be seated among the Terra Parzival Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Elmar Lampson) to experience the process and performance of Beethoven Violin Concerto Op 61. Through his method of “performance disruption”, Miha will guide you through the “musical architecture of feelings”, exploring a unique learning environment for leadership development. Through this process of musicality, emotionality, leadership and visual arts you will be encouraged to reflect on a number of issues; including whether it is possible to find solutions to pressing organizational dilemmas in the parallel world of a musical masterpiece? And whether it is possible for the musical drama of a classical Sonata to heal the contemporary omnipresent “crisis of meaning” by revisiting the sacred human creative biography?

You can find out more about Miha’s work at www.mihavision.com

Miha Lecture and performance for EU Ministers of Environment (1)

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