Embodied leadership

The aesthetics of gesture

Bibliographic Data

ID12883115
AuthorsRalph Bathurst (0000-0001-5207-8043, Massey University, corresponding author), Tiffany Cain (0000-0001-6286-2982, Massey University)
Year2013
Volume9
Issue3
Pages358-377
Publication date2013-07-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLeadership (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1742-7150 • E-ISSN: 1742-7169
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1742715013485851
OpenAlexW2335574714
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited44

This paper proposes that leadership is an embodied process which occurs among those who are in community together. This implies that the dualities between the leader and the follower morph into a set of relationships where bodies move and gesture to one another by inviting and responding to each other in open co-creative spaces. To work through our ideas, we offer an exemplar of Richard Strauss’s song Morgen! as it is rendered in performance. We locate our study within the theory of relational leadership and suggest that effective leadership draws on the abilities of organisational members to offer and respond to gestures as they occur moment-by-moment

Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Gesture · Moment (physics · Process (computing · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Computer Science · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Artificial Intelligence

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