Quiz yourself on the connection between leaders and artists

How many, if any, from each list are a mirror image of the other? How many, if any, match?

How the mind process art

1. How to create and attend to qualitative relationships in the absence of rules
2. Acting flexibly with purpose to approach a goal, dealing with unexpected discoveries and insights, exploring possibilities
3. Learning how to explore within a medium
4. Using imagination to see multiple perspectives.
5. Learning to pay attention to nuance
6. Surrendering to the arts  processes, rather than leading
7. Learning to use language figuratively, transcending what words can never say.
8. Creating emotionally what cannot be expressed literally
9. The qualitative features of the arts themselves and the world outside the arts.

Creative Competencies of Leadership

1. Noticing—slowing down, taking in more, an intensity of perception, seeking deeper meaning
2. Subtle representation —able to portray fine distinctions, an eye for detail and relationship
3. Fluid perspective — attuned to the dynamics of change and multiple points of view
4. Using right brain processing: i.e. non-verbal, intuitive, holistic, relational processing
5. Personalizing work —arts interests spill into work
6. Skeptical inquiry —cultivating uncertainty and alternative ideas, preserving the questions
7. Serious play —learning and exploring without rules, safe, joyful impassioned learning
8. Portraying paradoxes, conflicts, unknown—the ability to go deeper, preserving mystery
9. Facility with metaphor— constructing meaning, integrating whole-brain, generative thinking
10. Making shared meanings — competency with group processes, engaging creative tensions