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Passion

In: Negative Capability in Leadership Practice

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  • Charlotte von Bülow

    (University of the West of England
    Crossfields Institute Group)

  • Peter Simpson

    (University of the West of England
    Crossfields Institute Group)

Abstract

In this chapter, we explore how passion lies at the heart of leadership practice. This sometimes manifests as a spirited enthusiasm but Negative Capability sensitises us to passion as a felt absence or lack that stimulates our desire to know, to have, to do, or to be. It is this desire to fill the sense of lack, or vacuum within us that can generate our passion for the task. When associated with Negative Capability, passion is being without an irritable reaching after mastery and control, and it is an acceptance of things as they are, even if things are not to our liking. We position our inquiry into the role of passion in leadership practice against the backdrop of Plato’s Symposium with a particular focus on the lineage and mythology of the figure of Eros. This leads us to explore the parallels between Keats’ notion of Negative Capability and the Socratic Paradox of knowing only that one does not know. We end the chapter by sharing a leadership practitioner’s account of lived experience that points to the importance of mutuality and shared inquiry in leadership practice with passion.

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  • Charlotte von Bülow & Peter Simpson, 2022. "Passion," Springer Books, in: Negative Capability in Leadership Practice, chapter 0, pages 99-114, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-95768-1_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95768-1_8
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