The Leadership Insight journal is designed for managers and
leaders to reflect on their initiatives and directions. Including 27
paintings, blank pages, and words of wisdom for many of society’s noted leaders, the journal offers…

Embracing creative solutions is no longer a luxury; it has become a necessity. What could we accomplish in an economy where people combine an aspiration for ‘the beautiful’ with huge market poten-
tial, to solve problems worth solving; solutions worthy of our hu-

manity. What would it take to embrace beauty and artistry, in add-
ition to analysis, to sustainably solve the planet’s most

challenging problems? ...

As an artist and a global leadership scholar, management consultant, and educator, I draw inspiration from many of the world’s most
influential artistic and societal leaders. Art, and artistic processes,
have the power not only to offer us hope, but to guide us in
rediscovering and creating beauty in our fractured world. Art does
not dismiss science but, rather, partners with all ways of knowing …

Following Aristotle’s appreciation that “The soul…never thinks without a picture”, this article weaves together art and ideas into an aesthetic encounter with our humanity. It invites reflection based on
long-established wisdom traditions as well as drawing on insights from everyday sacred traditions. The overall invitation is to heighten your understanding of yourself as a twenty-first century leader. …

The time is right for this cross-fertilization of the arts and
leadership. Given the dramatic changes taking place in society,
the economy, and technology, 21st-century organizations need to engage in new, more spontaneous, and more innovative ways of managing. Increasingly companies are including artists and artistic processes in their approaches to strategic and day-to-day management and leadership...

Art- and music-based interventions in organizations have become more common, yet little research-based evidence exists supporting the efficacy of such approaches. This chapter reviews a range of music-based approaches that have been used throughout the world, including in situations of extreme conflict
and consequence. …

In IBM’s Global CEO Study, 1500 CEOs identified creativity as their single biggest leadership need. Can business artists fill the gap?
Artists and artistic processes have a history of offering
leadership—whether recognized as such or not—by revealing truth and giving form to possibility. …

To lead—from the Latin agere—means to set into motion.
Its Anglo-Saxon origins—“laedere”—mean people on a journey. Lead-
ers set ideas, people, organizations, and societies in motion. Such
leadership requires vision, courage, and a deep understanding of
power. The article describes a process of painting that guides people in identifying their own meanings and approaches to power.
The paintings produce...

Reflection. How can managers strengthen their capacity to lead
wisely and creatively? How can they envision and implement initia-
tives that matter? Building on Confucius’ wisdom and contempo-
rary research, along with the yearnings and experience of hun-
dreds of managers from around the world, it is clear that today’s leaders need to reflect—to return to the quiet and contemplation
it takes to be wise. …

Responding to the challenges and yearnings of the 21st century de-
mands the practices and perspectives of artists. Designing options
worthy of implementation calls for levels of inspiration, creativity, and a
passionate commitment to beauty that, until recently, have been more
the province of artists and artistic processes than the domain of most
managers. …

“The soul craves beauty. Yet our world languishes in
ugliness,”observers John O’Donohue. In the vocabulary of 21st-
century management, that same yearning would be labeled “daring
to care” – leadership that recognizes that the world is our ultimate
client. ...

[Artful Leading: Developing the Capacity for Significant
Contribution] Extraordinary leadership is born in who leaders are,
not merely in the summation of their learned strategies and
tactics—no matter how well executed. Drawing on artistic traditions
and processes, The Art of Leadership Seminar goes beyond
traditional management by …

To lead—from the Latin agere—means to set into motion. Its
Anglo-Saxon origins—“laedere”—mean people on a journey. Lead-
ers set ideas, people, organizations, and societies in motion. Such
leadership requires vision, courage, and a deep understanding of
power. The article describes a process of painting that guides
people in identifying their own meanings and approaches to power.
The paintings produce …

Chariy Ngilu ran for president against Kenya’s entrenched dictatorial leader. Her story is the story of civilization at a crucial transition as it marks its demise or celebrates transformation. It’s the story of leadership by both women and men that transcends history. ”We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history, but to shape history.” ……

Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the strength of
universal ideals (UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan). The relation-
ship between global business and society – including business’s
search for mutually beneficial advances that address the world’s
most pressing needs – has become a defining issue of the 21st
century. …

Norke Skog, a Norwegian multinational company leverages unique
arts-based organizational processes with its global business strat-
egy to succeed both financially and cross-culturally, while leading
its industry in sustainable practices …

21st-century society confronts us with challenges that defy
traditional analysis. Paralyzed by the inadequacy of our standard
logic, we search for wisdom—meaningful and effective
understandings that can guide us. Uniterra, in inaugurating its
highly effective global network, identified wise practices that were
inherently true, right, and just. Few of us question the need for
wisdom, yet to date …

Insights: Journal of the Academy of International Business
To be human is to give yourself for things far greater than yourself.
To lead is to give yourself for things far greater than yourself.
Leadership … unless we collectively learn to treat each other and
our planet in a more civilized way, it may soon become
blasphemous to even think of ourselves as a civilization. …