1. Poetical and Political Leadership
Gatot Prihandoko

2. Background Setting shift
Harmonious  cacophonous
Supportive  contentious
Leader’s Perception & Practices change  survive & thrive
Leaders = masterful politician & imaginative and inspirational poets

3. The Myth of Modern Management
Tools & techniques  to achieve the goals:
Manager’s role: planning, organizing, staffing, controlling
Regular meeting
PERT (Program Evaluation Review Technique) chart

4. The Myth of Modern Management
Not enough
But also
How organizations function?
How managers do & do not cope with that functioning?
How we think?

5. Organizations Logics
Factories – structural frame: built on rationality and results
Families – HR frame: satisfying individual needs as a key to top performance
Jungles – political frame: in favor of the laws of the jungle (scarce resource, competing interests and the role of power and conflict)
Temples – symbolic frame: seeing it as a temple where meaning, faith, belief and hope dominate

6. Organizations Logics
The frames are abstract theoretical constructs and person specific
Two dominant frames: structural and HR
In some respects this is not an issue; all frames are important

7. Leaders as Politicians
Politics: distasteful, manipulative, dishonest, destructive
Machiavelli: power & conflict are natural by-products of co-operative activities
Effective leader: engagement on pushing and tugging. Brawn and battle are unceasing features of life in every organization

8. Leaders as Politicians – Some Key Principles
Map the political terrain
Consolidate your power base
Lay out a clear agenda
Move when the time is ripe
Use of information as ammunition
Use structure as a political asset
Befriend opponents
Create arenas to air and resolve conflict
What is right is often relative
Politics always operate in a context of values  leader as poet

9. Poetic Leadership Poetry  language of the heart and soul
Its rhythm, rhyme and expressive verse to apprehend and appreciate the deeper aspects of being human
The importance of introducing symbols in giving life meaning
All human groups and organizations assemble over time a culture built around key symbolic elements: history, values & beliefs, heroes & heroines, ritual, ceremony and stories

10. Poetic Leadership
When the symbols no longer work, the individual cracks away, becomes dissociated and disoriented  a pathology of the symbol
That is where too many organizations are today
Restoring the symbolic
buoyancy is the job of the poetic leader

11. Poetic Leadership – Some Guiding Principles
Revisit and renew historical roots
Convey cultural values and beliefs
Recognize heroes and heroines
Convene and encourage rituals
Celebrate key events
Speak in picture words
Tell stories

12. Encouraging The Existing Leadership
Continuous learning from experience
Adopt a framework
A formal leadership development program
Not only on rational-technical approach
But also on emotional, expressive aspects of the leader as politician or poet