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also being a lover? For many today,

the poet W.B. Yeats words are more
relevant than ever:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot
hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the
world.
The state of many workplaces needs

a spiritual awakening. We are not
cogs in a machine as the mechanistic
mindset first finding its legs in the
Age of Enlightenment and, to be fair,
has also brought us much good (e.g.,
technology) has set in place over the
past century. But let us keep in mind
its shadow side. D.H. Lawrence has
written:
I am not a mechanism, an assembly
of various sections.
And it is not because the mechanism
is working wrongly,
that I am ill.
I am ill because of wounds to the
soul, to the deep emotional
self . . .
ENDNOTES
Anchored by Music: Bruce Cockburn
Pains Pictures of His Life in Rumours of
Glory, Fifty-Five Plus Magazine, Volume
28, Issue VII, June 2016, p. 12. Wikipedia describes Bruce Douglas Cockburn
(1945 -) as a Canadian singer-songwriter
and guitarist. His song styles range from
folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics
cover a broad range of topics that reveal
a passion for human rights, environmental issues, politics and spirituality.
Matthew B. Crawford. The World
Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an
Individual in an Age of Distraction.
Toronto: Penguin Books (Allen Lane),
2015, 3015 pages. I first heard Crawford
and a discussion on his first book, Shop
Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the
Value of Work (New York: Penguin Books,
2009, 246 pages) on Steve Paikens show
TVO: http://tvo.org/video/programs/
the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/matthewcrawford-in-defence-of-manual-work
(June 15, 2015, 25-minute video). Crawford is a philosopher and mechanic. He
has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from

the University of Chicago and served as a
postdoctoral fellow on its Committee on
Social Thought. Currently a fellow at the
University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, he owns and
operates Shockoe Moto, an independent
motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, Virginia. I was completely taken not only by
the video interview but also by purchasing and reading his two books. The Boston Globe newspaper at the time called
Shop Class as Soul Craft the sleeper hit
of the publishing season (2009).
Catherine Dawson March, Dance Fever, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, June
18, 2016, pp. T1, 4.
Website: http://www1.earningthroughlearning.com/. Students take elearning
courses for certification to be more effective business managers, employees, etc.
He has nearly 40,000 enrollments.
It is important to remember that
distractions can also lead to addictions
of many sorts. Think of the ways we try
to find relief. I am particularly struck
by people today, who wanting to avoid
awkward moments (on the bus, with
strangers, etc.), immediately pull out
their cellphone!
Quoted in Matthew B. Crawford. The
World Beyond Your Head, p. 170.
Lent is supposed to be a time for selfreflection in the Christian calendar to
develop a renewed and more whole
sense of living.
Italics added. I often think about this expression, thoughtless compromises, as
the times throughout the year when we
say yes when in fact we mean no and
when we fake our true feelings when the
moment demands emotional honesty,
for example.
From his song, Gospel of Bondage
(1987). Website: http://cockburnproject.
net/songs&music/gob.html. Accessed
June 27, 2016.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The Psychology
of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper
Perennial Modern Classics, 207, 336
pages. Csikszentmihalyi's idea of optimal experience as a genuinely satisfying experience is that during such 'flow'
a person typically experiences deep
enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life, from Amazon.ca. While
the great religious mystical traditions
didnt use the word flow, in essence

that is what they were reflecting on.
See Peter Cheney, Bug Love, The
Globe and Mail, Saturday, June 18, 2016,
p. 2.
Diane Peters, A Master Craftsman of
Stage Spectacle, The Globe and Mail,
Saturday, June 25, 2016, p. S12.
See Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, I,
1. Augustine writes that our hearts are
restless. Augustine lived from 354 430
CE.
T.S. Eliot. Murder in the Cathedral. London: Faber, 1935, p. 76.
Eric Butterworth. Spiritual Economics. The Principles and Process of True
Prosperity. Unity Village, Missouri: Unity
House, (1998) 2003, p. 55.
Edgar N. Jackson. The Many Faces of
Grief. Nashville, Tennessee: The Parthenon Press, (1957) 1978, p. 148.
Where the Universe Sings (Air Date:
Jun 26, 2016; Length: 59:29).
Perhaps this reality of suffering also
explains why some of us are reluctant
to truly love or have passion in the work
we do because of an unconscious or
preconscious sense that suffering comes
along with it, in the sense of self-denial
and thinking of others or how our work
impacts those around us and our world.
W.B. Yeats. The Second Coming. 1920.
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Second_Coming_(poem). Accessed
June 27, 2016.
D. H. Lawrence, Healing, in The Collected Poems of D.H. Lawrence. Ware,
Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Edition
Limited, 1994 (first published in 1929),
p. 513.
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ing perhaps for a potential marriage

partner with a person like this. Interior
design in motion! First, the idea, then
the physical reality. In other words,
we do who we are. Interestingly, the
author describes Stratford as Keeleys
spiritual home. Because of that
bent to excellence, he endowed his
work and context with a true sense of
otherness, of transcendence, of spirit,
of depth. T.S. Eliot in Murder in the Cathedral, describes such an optic most
beautifully something I am sure was
experienced by every participant at
the Stratford Festival when Heeley was
involved:
I have had a tremor of bliss, a wink of
heaven, a whisper. In the quiet of our
own ruminations, isnt this what we all

want to experience in our workplaces?
Henry Margeneau, a Yale physicist, said
the difference between ourselves and
the mystic is that the mystic is able to
peek through the keyhole of reality and
see the truth. The British philosopher,
L.P. Jacks, put this notion in a slightly
different way: Spirit is matter seen in
a strong light.
In short, therefore, I believe that true
leadership is embedded with passion,
with love, with eros. The TVO video of
Lawren Harris life, a founding member
of the Group of Seven, is a wonderful true story of passion-in-motion.
We must never forget that the word
passion comes from the Latin word

passio or suffering or undergoing
as its roots. We can never embrace
true passion and love without in some
sense also embracing suffering especially that of self-denial, a refusal
that can lead to a terrible state of
narcissism something I think many of
us would agree is very present in our
world today. True leadership in the
way I am describing it is fundamentally
about love whether that be parental
leadership or business leadership. In
that way true leadership to be true
leadership is ultimately transcendent.
It is an act and exercise in loving. When
that is done well, it is an erotic experience. Can a leader be a leader without
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tion involved in completing a task

well. Many of us today reject asceticism as old-fashioned. Everything must
be instant, now! We lack a learning
how to grow into something whether
that means completing a so-called boring job or focussing our attention, even
on a boring task. To direct our attention is essential to a life well-lived. If
we dont learn to savour the attendingto-directing-our-attention we end up
like many of the Stoics in Greek times:
putting up with.
3.
Ascetics. Sadly, the workplace
and its global disengagement problems are filled with people who put
up with. Think TGIF. I am not suggesting that it is easy. I am often struck by
the fact that we may not need many
of the religious fasts and deprivations
that people endure annually for a
number of weeks. Every day is a fast
day. The 6th century (CE) monastic
Rule of Benedict contains an amazing
expression about St. Benedicts counsel to his monks at the beginning of
Lent : that the monks get rid of any
thoughtless compromises [negligentias] which may have crept in at other
times (RB 49.3). Directing our attention to the task(s) at hand can often be
an ascetical exercise. The monastic tradition knew that. Living daily life well
is an ascetical exercise. In emotional
intelligence research and assessment
with the EQ-i or Emotional QuotientInventory, emotional management
of our Impulse Control (IC) and Stress
Tolerance (ST) levels readily come to
mind.
4.
Attentiveness. In short, when
we do pay attention, when we attend
to the present task at hand and do our
best, we often experience a renewed
energy and sense of ourselves. But
keep in mind, such attentiveness is
often an act of asceticism. When this
sense of exhilaration does occur, we
realize that we have stopped focusing
on ourselves; we have broken the narcissistic pull in our lives; we have experienced a sense of other and other-
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ness; in short, we have transcended

our limited vision that we alone matter.
In experiencing all of this, we realize
that having attuned our attention to
the ordinary well done, we begin to
experience this sense of joy, even love
eros. Even with some of the most
boring jobs, we can position our minds
and hearts as Cockburn reminds us:
Sometimes you can hear the Spirit whispering to you,
But if God stays silent, what else can you
do
Except listen to the silence?
5.
Leadership. I used to tell my
students in my business classes not
to limit themselves simply to business
texts and research articles. The article,
Dance Fever, mentioned at the
beginning of this article, is an example
of one such article outside the business section of the paper. The article
is about the author going to Vienna
to learn to waltz and, in so doing, also
learns about the citys history and its
future because the dance schools were
also introductions to the culture. The
author found her vacation one of the
best ever. After I read the article, it was
only then I realized that the first three
paragraphs summed up some of my
intuition for an erotics of leadership
because, for me, it captured the heartand-soul nay, the spirit of true
leadership.
I dont think Ive been held by a man
quite like this before. I can feel his
body heat through the thin white
gloves as he bows low over my right
hand, then steps forward to firmly
cup my left shoulder blade. Im nervous. He smiles down at me. Timidly,
I place my left hand on his shoulder
just so my arm rests on his, while
my thumb nestles into the crook of
his shoulder joint.
That way you can read his muscles,
sense where Alexander is going to
lead you, Aga Chochorek, my instructor, murmurs, and with a swish
of her full-length ball gown, she
moves back to the sound system.

As we wait for the music to begin, I
giggle, and almost sigh. Im in a Viennese ballroom inside a 19th-century palais, arm in arm with a man
dressed in tails, shiny black shoes
and crisp white bow tie. Alexander
is an incredible dancer, and he is 19.
Im old enough to be his mother. Johann Strausss Roses from the South
waltz begins, and were off. This is
the best vacation Ive had in years.
6.
Flow. Within those first three
paragraphs we experience the authors
playfulness, seriousness, emotional
and physical awareness almost a
real sense of being lost in bliss in
my term, being in love. I dont think
leaders can create such intensity all
the time but, for me, its an ideal.
There is a feeling that the author is in
love with love or in the flow. The idea
of flow has been a part of business
thinking and research now for the
past number of years. My mention of
the word love in business is not the
first time such a notion has ever been
used. If you recall, the VW Beetle was
often called the love bug. Perhaps
real leaders are primarily leaders only
when they are lovers! The erotics of
leadership: what you always wanted to
know about leadership but were afraid
to ask!
7.
Bliss. A classic example of a
person in love with his work and profession was that of the late Desmond
Heeley (1931-2016) of the Stratford
Festival. Above all, he was an artist
who never lost his passion for design. Doug Paraschuk, a set designer
at Stratford who worked as Heeleys
assistant for many years and was also
a friend, remarked, He was a master
at finding light (italics added). While
such a comment most likely referred
to finding actual light on a stage setting, Heeleys design ideas as they
are with all of us always first emerge
existentially from within us. We even
speak that someone has designs on a
person, meaning that they are look-
The Erotics of Leadership:

A Perspective
Dr. Michael E. Rock

Human Relations Consultant
July 2016
I wasnt really interested in political stuff,

but Ive always been interested
in history unfolding; not with any kind of
agenda, just with curiosity.
Bruce Cockburn1
Heres what happened: I was reading a magazine recently
that had a picture of Bruce Cockburn on the cover and an
accompanying inside story. In addition, I had just finished
reading a book, The World Beyond Your Head written by philosopher Matthew Crawford. And then kaboom! Right after
I read an article in the Travel Section of the Globe and Mail
weekend newspaper entitled Dance Fever. Suddenly it all
came together! And so now you have the title of my article:
The Erotics of Leadership!
I remember reading the first paragraph of Dance Fever
and found it all quite exciting! A gestalt, or wholistic (integrating) image emerged for me, that is, everything came
together on a subject I had been researching for over ten
years: employee disengagement or, better yet, workplace
disengagement. Hence, the thrust of my article. Let me
explain. I am going to try to argue the point of my articles
title by selecting key case examples from these recent authors. I have never approached this topic of workplace and
employee engagement from this angle of eros ever before!
However, I came to see that I have always been doing so!
A former student of mine, Bob Delaney, who owns and runs
ETL or Earning Through Learning, a web-based business
platform that is also linked to eCornell, HR Press and London
School of Business Finance, once took me to lunch in 2004
to discuss some ideas for me to be the closing speaker for a
one-day conference he was hosting called the Information

Highways Conference that he was holding in Toronto that
same year. He made a remarkable statement at the time
that became for me the motif for my part in the conference.
He said, The power of leadership is the power of curiosity. He summarized very beautifully in one sentence what I
intuitively had understood about leadership. Curiosity. That
is why the opening quote by Bruce Cockburn also immediately caught my attention. For Cockburn, while it was history
that always captured his imagination, it was his reason that
was important to me: not with any kind of agenda, just
with curiosity. Isnt it true that while we dont always follow
the pied piper, as they say, we always follow those who help
create and foster curiosity in us. I call those people leaders
and that can be anyone, adult or child.
This short essay, therefore, contains notes on leadershipas-curiosity and how the Greek notion of eros is integral to
such a dynamic. I then want to cite some key passages that, I
believe, support my thesis.
1.
Eros. According to Wikipedia, the word eros from
ancient Greek (, or rs, love or desire) is one of
four words ... which can be rendered into English as love.
Further, The term erotic is derived from eros which has also
been used in philosophy and psychology in a much wider
sense, almost as an equivalent to life energy. When such
life energy or spirit is present and alive in the workplace, I
call such a workspace the worthplace. Such a worthplace
exhales eros. In effect, a worthplace by its intrinsic definition, is an erotic place to work because it bubbles over
with passion. A worthplace, therefore, is a workplace that
breathes eros because it is always a curious environment.
2.
Boredom. We all experience, of course, some moments of boredom. The ancient monastic tradition referred
to this as acedia or the noon-day devil. We feel as though
its high noon, the sun is shining most intensely, and it is hot,
hot, hot symbolically as Im describing the sun here. The
first thing we want to do is get out of the sun and go to a
darker place or a place with shade to distance and distract ourselves somehow. However, have you ever started
what you know will be or may be a boring task housework,
filling out forms, etc. and yet, when finished, often counterintuitively, you experience a sense of elation what can
be generally described as a good feeling. A sense of what
the Latins called quies, or restfulness, comes upon you. A
job well done. Matthew Crawford quotes Simone Weil on
paying attention and focusing on what needs to be done:
every time that we really concentrate our attention, we
destroy the evil in ourselves. Thats pretty strong medicine
but we also know the fracture in life that allows the negative
to claim our attention. According to Crawford what Weil and
others are suggesting is that there is an ascetics of atten-
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