Paradoxes, double binds, and the construction of ‘creative’ managerial selves in art-based leadership development

Over the last two decades, a managerial discourse has emerged that calls for introducing the logics of art and esthetics into the field of management. In this article, we seek to shed light on the ‘creative’ managerial subjectivity that is sanctioned by this discourse. For this purpose, we examine leadership development workshops that invite managers to conduct a choir, and thus embody the manager-as-artist analogy. We find that these workshops...