Hi Everyone,
Hope you're all having a great summer! Below is an announcement of what I think is an exciting All Academy Symposium that we've put together this summer. I hope you'll join us for the conversation!
All-Academy Symposium:
Tightrope Walking Dare-to-Care Devils:
Difference Makers, Edgewalkers, and
Intellectual Shamans
Please come to our All-Academy Symposium “Tightrope WALKING Dare-to_care Devils: Difference Makers, Edgewalkers, and Intellectual Shamans,” on Sunday, August 8, from 4:45-6:15, in Room 511F of Le Palais Des Congres.
Tightrope walking is exactly what some people do as they tread a fine line between current practice and what is new. Called edgewalkers in management practice (Neal, 2006), difference makers at the interstices between business and society (Waddock, 2008), and intellectual shamans as academics (Frost & Egri, 1994; Waddock et al., 2008), they walk those tightropes daily working between current practice and what is next, the boundaries of organizations and sectors, and theory and practice. In this symposium, we hope to raise important questions about the roles and purposes of these tightrope walkers as they ‘dare to care’ about today’s critically important issues, bridging between theory and practice, spanning boundaries of all sorts, and bringing new perspectives on old issues. We believe that the state of the world with its manifest problems demands new forms of daring to care and that intellectual shamans can foster this dare-devilism academically and in other ways.
The panel will feature: Stuart Hart of Cornell University on the fulfillment of doing the work you want to do on your own terms and some of the associated risks; Andrew Hoffman of the University of Michigan on the importance of linking our work and careers to the very real problems of the world; Judith Ann Neal of the University of Arkansas on ‘edgewalkers,’ people in companies who have learned to walk between worlds; Maurizio Zollo of Bocconi University on what kind of people are we collectively aiming to nurture and develop? What are the role models that the association is forging for its own members? And Sandra Waddock and Erica Steckler on the roles of difference makers questioning whether we can build such capacities in our own students and readers, to help make intellectual shamans—who dare to care—of more people.
We will engage each other and the audience in an interactive conversation about these topics. It should be interesting and exciting and we hope to see you there! For more information:
http://program.aomonline.org/2010/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=258.
Best,
Sandra
Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy
Professor of Management
Boston College
Carroll School of Management
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
617-552-0477
f: 617-552-0433
waddock@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~waddock/
Think before you print!