APOSTOLIC CREATIVE LEADERSHIP

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APOSTOLIC CREATIVE LEADERSHIP

• for SYSTEMIC CHANGE

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LEADERSHIP .AN ENIGMA

• Relationship
• Art
• Activity
• Meaning Making
• Collaborative
• Work
• Mental process
• Stories

• Product or Behavior Change

• Creative Deviance on the Frontline

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The 3 Cs of APOSTOLIC CREATIVE LEADERSHIP

• From his Jesuit spiritual training, Mateo Ricci
  critically reflected on the cultural context.
• From his European scientific heritage, Mateo
  Ricci was able to make meaning of apparent
  contradictions.
• From his Christian theological formation, Mateo
  Ricci learnt to use his cognition with humble
  courage.

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CONTEXT

• The Maps
• The lands and the sea
• The people and their cultures
• The stories, myths and legends
• The mind sets and affective make up
• The rituals, customs and traditions

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CONTRADICTIONS

• Make meaning of the tension
• Science and Faith and Culture
• Eastern religions and Western Christianity
• Academic Scholarship and Hierarchical Leadership
• Mission and Status Quo
• the tension between respect and money,
• the tension between reciprocity and greed,
• and the tension between traditional culture and
  post modernity,
• the tension between Christian religions and
  democratic politics,
• the tension between management and ethics,
• and the tension between tradition and change

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HUMBLE COURAGE

• channel their egos away from themselves and into
  a larger goal of building the community.
• their ambition is first and foremost for the
  institution, be it the family, the culture, the
  church, the government
• demonstrates a compelling modesty, shunning
  public adulation and is never boastful
• act with quiet, calm determination and set up
  successors for even greater success in the next
  generation

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Emerging Model of Creative Leadership

• It is located (context dependent),
• It is engaged (dependent on interaction with the
  surrounding environment),
• It is embodied and concrete (affected by material
  aspects and physical constraints),
• It is specific (sensitive to contingencies).
• It involves cognition, is not individual,
  rational, abstract, detached and general.
  Instead, leadership is social (located in human
  communities),

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