Aesthetic Leadership

Leaders in business and art can gain a lot by listening to each other. In this book thirteen research-based cases demonstrate how software programmers, art curators, financial analysts, orchestra conductors, construction engineers and chefs, share aesthetic leadership talents that hold the key to transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Autorentext
IVAR BJORKMAN Rector of the University College of Arts Craft and Design, stockholm, Sweden HELENA CSARMANN Research Assistant at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden BERTIL GONZALES GUVE Assistant Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden ANN SOFIE KOPING Assistant Professor at Sodertorn University College, Sweden JENNY LANTZ Research Assistant at Stockolm School of Economics, Sweden MARCUS LINDAHL Assistant Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden KATJI LINDQVIST Assistant Professor, Stockholm University School of Business STEFAN MEISIEK Assistant Professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal ERIK PINERO Assistant Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden ALF REHN Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden EMMA STENSTROM Assistant Professor at Stockholm School of Economics and CEO of arts and Business, Sweden MARJA SOLIA-WADMAN Assitant Professor at Vaxjo University, Sweden JEANETTE WETTERSTROM Researcher at the School of Business, Stockhom University, Sweden

Inhalt
Introduction Leadership on Fields of Flow; P.Guillet de Monthoux, C.Gustafsson & S.E.Sjöstrand Creative Composts: Playing and Conducting Musical Events; A.S.Köping Aesthetic Institutions: Three Centuries of Judgement and Management in the Royal Swedish Opera; J.Wetterström Gendered Textbook Filmmakers; J.Lantz Can Art be a Leader? Beyond Heroic Film Directing; M.Soila-Wadman Body Business: Projects for Weight Watchers; E.Stenström Aesthetics at the Heart of Logic: On the Role of Beauty in Computing; E.Pineiro Aesthetics of Financial Judgements on Risk Capitalists' Confidence; B.G.Guve Stengel's Roller Coasters: Engineering Thrills into Projects; H.Csarmann Engineering Improvisation: The Case of Wartsila; M.Lindahl Dissonances, Awareness, and Aesthetization: Theatre in a Home Care Organization; S.Meisiek Eros and Apollo: The Curator as Pas-de-deux Leader; K.Lindqvist Management: The Business Sense of Antonin Careme; A.Rehn Aesthetic Leadership and its Triadic Philosophy; P.Guillet de Monthoux; C.Gustafsson & S.E.Sjöstrand