12.11. LEADERSHIP THAT INCLUDES BEAUTY
In fact, of all modern management's sins, one of the least recognized is its neglect of beauty. After all, life was once viewed as beautiful, even though it's hard to recall this when reading management books or looking at the working life of most people today. Wealth doesn't seem to help. As the economy advances, the workplace doesn't become less dreary, with its total focus on analysis, optimization, and the bottom line. If a glimmer of beauty accidentally occurs in a modern organizational setting, it's usually regarded as an embarrassment: it will be dealt with by a rhetoric that has no aesthetic sensitivity to begin with.[]
But what use is a life of work if there isn't a scintilla of beauty within it? ...
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