Strategic Leadership Spirituality, Mysticism & Art

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1 Strategic Leadership Spirituality, Mysticism & Art 2016 CaSPA Conference Professor Peter Steane msc Chair of Strategy, Australian Catholic University Parents oral Care Orthodoxy Staffing Facilities Thinking to Protect the Thinking Strategizing In Schools Renovating Foresight Thinking to Envisage the Opening Hearts/Minds NAPLAN Succession Planning Fundraising Mental Health Governance Bullying Acting to Repeat the Action Acting Refining Pro Activity Acting to Secure the 1

2 Mary MacKillop You will never do inner work if you are constantly busy. Take time to step back and be attentive to the music of life We ll do good today and strive to do better tomorrow Charism Leader Skill Buoyant spirit => vision Calm faith (humility) => self Effective delegation => mentor Constant letter writing => support local knows best => subsidiarity Journey Ascent => Deprivation + Restoration + Transformation St. John of the Cross: The Ascent of Mt. Carmel 3 stages St. Theresa of Avila: The Interior Castle 7 mansions St. Ignatius of Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises 4 weeks + Rhineland Mystics Hildegard of Bingen & Meister Eckhart Julianna of Norwich Desert Fathers & Desert Mothers ++ Orthodox: Russian, Greek, Coptic, Syro Maliba, Egyptian, etc KEY POINT => Transcending singularity 2

3 Charism => Narrative => Identity => Action Benedictine [St. Benedict] Community, hospitality, stability islands of culture Dominican [St. Dominic] Apostolic, proclamation, truth Mercy (Catherine McAuley] God s love in everyone (sick, poor), compassion Franciscan [St. Francis] Simplicity, Creation, peace, letting go Teilhard [de Chardin] Fully human, Creation, tiller of the world Gospel story, parable or event Emmaus, Miracle, Value, Teaching Edmund Rice Christ present in the poor Feast day or Catholic hero Reflected Lesson Experience Ministry & Action Cubism and Leadership Portrait of the issue Portrait of the issue Leadership from the point of view of the observer from the point of view of the issue enabling others to see possibilities beyond our tribal gods. 3

4 Picasso s Code: the Art of Strategizing Cubist Principle Leadership term Strategic Competency Simultaneity Geometricity Passage Fourth Dimension Conceptual vs Perceptual Eclecticism (Envisaging) Simplification (thinking) Bi sociation (innovating) Holism (Discerning) Imagin i zation (implementing) Combining different ideas and practices; inviting fresh perspective. Reconciling paradox and contradiction; synthesizing unconventional options. Starting conversations across boundaries; building capacity across disciplines. Viewing the whole rather than parts; discerning opportunities for organizational DNA. Creating meaning with shared understanding; developing sustainable capacity to renew. Dufour & Steane 2017 The Simultaneity Principle Combining different ideas and practices; inviting fresh perspective La Gioconda (or Mona Lisa) Leonardo Da Vinci, and Woman in hat and fur collar Pablo Picasso,

5 Reasons for Success Referral & Diagnostics Critical Success Factors Charism Success Factors CSFs Brand/Profile Innovation Mission Service Personal Development Resolving Learning problems School oral Governance response Flexibility Curriculum Innovation Staff discretion Decision Response Efficiencies Use of Assets Family Culture Monitoring & Supervision Church & Partners Reasons for Success Resources and Capabilities Strategizing Mission Revising Business <= Cost Focus => Factors the sector takes for granted that ought be eliminated? Factors to be reduced, regardless of sector standard? Eliminate Reduce RCRE Raise Create Factors that ought be raised, even if already above sector standard? Factors should be created that the sector has not offered? <= Value Focus => 5