Aesthetic Interpretation Of Leadership Art

The art of leadership is not only an old topic newer with time, but a familiar yet less known subject. Leadership inevitably needs art for it is the most creative and challengeable activity with great responsibility, which demands the unity of scientific and artistic nature. During the transferring period of open and reform, China has experienced a dramatic change and development in the idea of value, tradition of culture, economical system and political participation. Furthermore, arduous task of constructing, complicated patterns of economy and society as well as anfractuous international situation have brought about the unprecedented pressure and challenge. A changing time necessarily expects the art of leadership and important task and mission calls for the leadership achieving the state of art as well.Though the art of leadership has grown up and become a newer domain of research in the recent decades, we still fail to comprehend it deeply and theoretically enough to reveal its basic laws and principles, let alone the concern with practice which is far away from the expectation of the public. In view of the above situation, the article is trying to explore it from various angles, such as arts, aesthetics, social science and pedagogic etc, with the aim to enrich the art of leadership theoretically and practically.There are popular prejudices as to the connotation of the art of the leadership. Understanding "What is the art of leadership?" and "What is not?" is based on the premise that these prejudices should be eliminated. It is a must to master the definition of leadership and the nature of art in order to give a reasonable definition of the art of leadership. The leadership and the art which seem irrelevant to each other, there are the common source of communication at human nature because leadership activity has the artistic spiritual connotation and feature, while art activity has the same function and pursuit. The two has the same final aim: the aim of the art of leadership is to let human seek the ideal life in the harmonious and stable society. While exploring the leader how to achieve the aim with artistic means, we will also explore how the art enter the aesthetic state from "technique" to "art", with the aesthetic becoming the aim. In the course of exploring the art of leadership, we need to master the "technique" as well as the "art" of leadership, regarding the art of leadership as aesthetic construction in leadership field at the level of arts and aesthetics. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the art from various dimensions with the aim to bring it back to aesthetic state.Just as a vivid image is the basic pattern of art, the important symbol of the art of leadership is excellent leadership image. Different from the art image, the good image of leader needs his social performance act since it is constructed and communicated during the course of interaction with the followers and the public. So performance science and social performance sciences attract our attention: performance is innate in human life, which penetrates in various aspects of human action as a common existence means. The human's performance has the features of formability, mimetism, infectivity, humanization, token etc, which can generate interaction influence. As a result, performance and leadership culture have the intermingle relationship with each other, which endow the leadership action with social performance nature. In view of the absence of performance in leadership activity field, we hold that performance deserves further attention as the basic existence pattern of the leadership.Leaders, as the subject of leadership practice, need to upgrade their personal quality. This is the important argument of the article. Without this kind of personal quality, a discussion of the art of leadership would become something like trying to recognize a new value by following up an outdated valuation and, even worse, working hard for nothing. Based on the leadership education, the author believes that aesthetic education should play a key role in the construction of leaders' personal quality and, consequently, the article's final achievement lies in both recognizing the aesthetic dimension and promoting the innovation during leadership educating. With the above- mentioned ideation of research, the article sets up the research sectors as following:By holding the precondition of ascertaining the concept of art-of-leadership, streamlining the general situation of China's leadership research, standing on the level of existing achievement of art-of-leadership in the academe of leadership and a new connotation developed in art-of-leadership under an aesthetically visual angle, Chapter One puts forward the aesthetic signification involved in the art of leadership and has a theoretical probe on structure and characteristics of the signification.Based on the socially acting essence of leadership behaviors and the art-related demand to leadership acting, Chapter Two and Three follow the guidance of sociology, acting art, social psychology and media for probing the acting behaviors and phenomena of leadership practice, study the role played by leaders and the relevant acting art. Also, on the basis of axiology, the two chapters establish a measure of evaluation in order to enable leaders' performance good enough to deal with building, constructing and promoting their public images in the context of modern media.The next two chapters, the fourth and the fifth, regard the art of leadership as aesthetic construction of human beings in the field of leadership. Under the guidance of aesthetics and arts, we can quest closely and rationally about these aspects, involving deep reflection on aesthetic of leadership, aesthetic state of the art of leadership, and aesthetic category of the art of leadership, and scrutinize the beauty of "technique" and "art" of the leadership in the practice. The significant objective is not only to conduct aesthetic questioning and reflection on the art of leadership, but also to further explore how it can provide value-orientation and aesthetic guidance for the generation and implementation of the art of leadership, and to make the art of leadership create aesthetic and meaningful "work", thus get access to the characteristic elements inherent in the art of leadership.The sixth Chapter chiefly concerns that in the media's time which is jointly promoted by globalization, technology and information, the role of leaders partakes the fruitful meanings and diverse features of the role of artists, hence, aesthetic accomplishment that leaders should possess both as subject in performance and art creation becomes the ultimate focus of the research, so does its cultivation and training, The aesthetic dimension of the leadership education of the New Time is proposed from the perspective of leadership education and its cultivation, also to promote innovation in leadership education.In conclusion, the art of leadership is a spiritual exotic flower which is the result of the cooperation, jointly nurture and mutual appreciation of the leader and their followers in the leadership process. It is bound to bloom in the human's pursuit for ideal leadership in terms of priceless value and unique charm, so the coming of "enjoyment of leadership" time can be soon declared.