I've appreciated the stuff on consciousness and other subjects we are never going to 'disentangle' of late. Someone was 'threatening' more on universes 'sprouting all over the place' from curved space-time (pace moi or a string necktie party round at Pat's perhaps). All in favour ... yet what about practical creative issues? I used to teach a module called Creative Organisational Practices and Analysis (where we could all come a croppa) - students from long ago often remind me it was an oasis in the desert of business teaching. There were no rules other than to produce a 5,000 word or equivalent project that I could feasibly fit with my own rules of scamming the bureaucracy. One story about the 'no rules' concerned the leisure studies lecturer who considered hammock sleeping on the beach as a clearly excellent project in leisure, though I did mention he was finally sacked after fourteen years of practice. Some of the work was so good it made Channel 4 television, some so bad I was reduced to marking the laughs of derision. The bull in the syllabus was silver- tongued and highly academic - an excellent cover for the FOFO teaching style and deconstruct the penguin ethos. No one ever failed, but a mark of 43.5% was covertly known to indicate my displeasure. One survivor even wrote her final dissertation as a comparison of management and the Dancing Masters of the Wu Li (high energy physics meets organisational aesthetics). Some said I was swooned by her prettiness, but she married a real physicist. The external examiner, agreeing my mark, spluttered this was the most dangerous work he had ever witnessed. Another did a photographic comparison of company mergers and marriage - presented at an International conference, topped only by another on the same theme by a Norwegian academic. Teaching, such as it was, varied from presentations of my own papers and people dragged in from the street, including Spike Milligan and Hovis Presley, a prostitute and some amateur magicians. I wonder what our views on practical creativity are? My course was inspired in part by a Peter Anthony book 'The Foundation of Management', opening with an assertion that the last place to send talented young people to learn about business was a business school - maybe they should spend time with scientists or Bohemians.
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