Bramstrup 2008
The revival of apprenticeship in building up leadership
The force of tradition is based on the creation of events which are able to incorporate and exemplify, and hence, to share, knowledge that cannot be transformed into spoken and written language. The core of this process is the performance of the master. This is obvious in art, and is institutionalised in the master class. The performance of the master creates a hexis (habit) of attention in the pupil which is directed through four dimensions of intensity:
A. To increase one’s attention of one self as an individual who is able to create one self in the light of a practical, an ethical, and an aesthetical project, and hence, to create a professional identity, as the shape of a unique life.
B. To increase one’s attention towards other people as co-sharing professional and human aspirations.
C. To increase the understanding of the role of one’s own performance in relation to the organisation.
D. To be able to draw attention in a proper way.
For long, leaders have been the product of the impact of tradition, and genuine leadership has been the result of informal relations of apprenticeship. The creation of pronounced employee-identities results from similar processes. Now it is time to acknowledge this, and to develop this concept of situated learning deliberately.
New managerial technologies, enforced by the need to create employees which are able to manage themselves, like making values real, exploring the modes of recognition, and developing sensitive and responsible forms of coaching, related to apprenticeship.
Art is an unsurpassed media practising apprenticeship, formal and informal. By using the different processes of teaching art, we are able to witness the renewing and extremely innovative powers of the concrete transference of tradition. Tradition supplies us with the capacities to handle the unforeseen and contingent event by recreating its sense at a new level. The semantic ambiguity and depth of tradition forms the real basis of creativity, because it invests the individual with the force to improvise.
At Bramstrup we demonstrate how different levels of incorporated knowledge can be realised by directing attention through exemplifying. This is done through vocal and instrumental music, using the method of instruction by exemplifying. The central point is that the master does not tell the pupils what they do wrong, but shows them what they do not do right, by demonstrating how things are done. A little word, a hardly noticeable gesture, an unperceptible movement, changes the whole setting from shallowness to authenticity.
The secret of the performance which convinces is excellence. This goes for leadership as well as for art.
Acquiring Mastery
“Mastery,” this year’s theme at Bramstrup, invokes a collection of principles, processes, and practices that can be learned. A person might become a “master” though it won’t be easy. The path to mastery is clear, at least in its broadest outlines: training, practice, experience. Mastery has little to do with mystical powers, miraculous transformations, or romantic illusions. For one thing, the work’s too hard, too centered in the practical world, too dependent on focused devotion.
To become a master, one must first apprentice, must learn by following the example of a master. While the appearances of any work process are available to all, deeply knowledgeable understanding, mastery, comes only to those steeped in the lore and wisdom of the craft, who have derived principles, not from precepts, but from practice, under the patiently relentless guidance of a master. In such learning, there’s no step-by-step template, no quantifiable developments of isolated skills or learning of facts. The deep learning of apprenticeship is almost all non-verbal: in fact, it’s not discursive at all. It exists in doing, not in language about doing.
In modern societies, we’ve seen a gradual decline in this kind of learning, and a development of
distance between doing and thinking. The intellectual lure of abstraction and the constant commercial pressure towards economies of scale have led our culture first to separate thinking about how to do work from the actual doing of it. This separation, at first metaphysical, became actual as control over work processes moved from the factory floor to the design center in another building. From that other building, it’s easy value a white collar over a blue one. However, as we strive in business contexts to create the new and valuable, the wisdom of doing and doing again re-surfaces as a way of achieving the “un-word-able” process of mastery.
Conference schedule
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June 19 Morning: Arriving Afternoon: Evening: Workshop / Performance |
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June 20 Morning: Afternoon: Workshop: The Musician as a master Evening: Performance and Post performance |
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June 21 Morning: Afternoon: Bramstrup Picnic / Performance: Evening: Post performance Dionysian symposium |
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June 22 Departure Brunch (option) |
Keynote Speakers
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Professor, Dr. Phil. Ole Fogh Kirkeby, Centre for Art & Leadership, D.K. Read about Ole Fogh Kirkeby - click here |
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Associate Professor Robert D. Austin, Harvard Business School, U.S.A (Visiting Professor at CBS) Robert D. Austin joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1997. He teaches MBA courses in Technology and Operations Management, the information technology (IT) module of an executive program for owner/ managers, and chairs the school's program for information technology executives He is developing a new MBA course called “Managing in the Creative Economy” which will debut in the spring of 2007. Professor Austin's research focuses on management of knowledge intensive activities. He has written on these subjects in five books, The Broadband Explosion: Leading Thinkers on the Promise of a Truly Interactive World, (co-edited with Stephen P. Bradley, Harvard Business School Press, 2005), Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work (co-authored with Lee Devin), Corporate Information Strategy and Management, Creating Business Advantage in the Information Age (both co-authored with Lynda M. Applegate and F. Warren McFarlan), and Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. He is the author of more than 60 business articles and cases published in both academic and practice oriented journals such as Harvard Business School Review, Management Science, and Information Systems Research. He is a consultant to many international companies, and a frequent speaker on subjects of business innovation, arts and business, and information technology management. In 2005-2006, he is a guest professor at the Center for Arts and Leadership, Copenhagen Business School. Read more about Robert D. Austin – Click here |
Facilitators
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Peter Hanke, Centre for Art & Leadership, D.K. Graduated from the Royal Academy as choral conductor specialised in contemporary scored music and classical oratorios. Directing Voces Copenhagen and Contemporary Opera Denmark. Has served as a manager in the cultural sector. Member of the European Cultural Parliament, Artistic Director for Centre for Art & Leadership and Bramstrup Performing Arts. |
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Violinist and Visting Professor Paul Robertson (U.K.) Paul’s continuing interest in exploring the implicit meanings of music has taken many forms over the years. For more than twenty years he has worked alongside leading scientists to explore the neurological and scientific basis of music. This work reached a wide public with his highly acclaimed Channel 4 television series ‘Music and the Mind’. Along with his busy concert schedule, he is in constant international demand as a speaker and lecturer at medical, scientific and educational conferences as well as business colloquia. He is a Cultural Leader in the World Economic Forum, and is in regular conversation with business, media and political leaders. He also became increasingly intrigued by the applications of music to Education and Health. A series of international medical and hospital presentations, including extended series at the ‘Hopital Cantonal’-Geneva and the prestigious Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, U.K. has lead to a regular International schedule of Talks and Presentations at leading medical institutions and conferences. |
Performers
Facilitators from the Centre for Art & Leadership at the Copenhagen Business School will participate in the entire conference guiding the open space activities and the workshops.
Language: English (Danish partly, if special requests occur in open space or workshops)
Register
Conference fee: DKR 6.000 dkr. (including meals and tickets for performances, eksklusive accomodation and transportation)
Reduced fee for students and artists: DKR 2.200 (including meals and tickets for performances, eksklusive accomodation and transportation)
Register for the event
Questions relating to registration contact: Centre for Art & Leadership, Kathrine Winge Müller – kwm.lpf@cbs.dk
Bramstrup Performing Arts is produced by Exart Performances and the Center for Art & Leadership (CAL)
Questions relating to the programme, contact: Peter Hanke 39 76 11 08 – exart@exart.dk
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