Aesthetic Intelligence: Reclaim the Power of Your Senses
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A pioneering book about the intersection of business and the arts, revealing how Aesthetic Intelligence fuels connection, creativity, and innovation. Aesthetic Intelligence expands your capacity to fully utilize the power of your senses, and helps you discover fresh approaches to tackling long-standing challenges and opportunities in an ever-changing global and diverse marketplace.
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WHAT REVIEWERS SAY
Rochelle Mucha writes insightfully, generously and exceedingly well about a subject invisible to many, but nonetheless vital to our health as individuals and as a society, namely the centrality of our senses in learning, leadership, creativity and daily life. She introduces her very attractive concept of Aesthetic Intelligence with three rich underpinning capacities: presence, authenticity and synthesis, and then sets to work bringing each to life in refreshing, often profound, and ultimately elegant terms. "Listening", she says, "is not the work of one sense, but of all the senses." And it is listening at this deeper, more fully integrated level, which powers our capacity for presence and fuels Aesthetic Intelligence. She draws her concept of authenticity at a similar level of integration as a capacity which embraces the many roles we play in the course of a day or a lifetime with the same level of self-knowledge and steady fluency of being we witness in a first class actor. This too, fuels Aesthetic Intelligence. Whether you are a leader interested in sharpening your already keen sense of judgment, or an educator or consultant seeking new skills for the 21st century, Rochelle Mucha's book Aesthetic Intelligence: Reclaim the Power of Your Senses is bound to be an eye-opener, an ear opener, a mind opener and more. It will make you wonder why on earth you haven't come to your senses sooner!
John J. Cimino, Jr.
President and Founder, Creative Leaps International and The Learning Arts,
Composer, Scientist, Educational Consultant, Creator of the "Concert of Ideas"
Aesthetic Intelligence is a journey that invites the reader to join Rochelle in being an organizational pioneer. Much like a playwright who invites actors to perform their work, Rochelle provides the stage for a new set of principles for managers, employees, or anyone in between, to take. It is up to you as the reader to explore your own Aesthetic Intelligence road. May you enjoy traveling the path as much as I have! William J. Latshaw, Organizational Practice Lead Researcher
Top Three Strategy Consulting Firm
The world has become a much less predictable place. Randomness has entered into world events like never before. The traditional management tools used to plan and predict for the future like MBO's and strategic planning models are becoming less effective. I found Ael© (Aesthetic Intelligence) to provide a fresh perspective that introduces new tools and concepts for dealing with the unpredictability leaders face today. The skills of presence, authenticity, and synthesis provide a new way to learn and adapt in this new reality. I loved the book and plan to share it with my team. Well done!
Jim Burns, General Manager
JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes
I never knew there was so much to be learned about how to lead a business from such a disparate area as theatre. I found the book to be quite practical; and highlighted exactly what has been missing in business leadership.If you truly want to empower your organization for success, then this book is a must-read. Bobby Cooper
Program Manager, The Coca-Cola Company
Rochelle brings a new and refreshing perspective to leadership. Her use of a theater arts metaphor highlights some of the most important leadership behaviors, giving Aesthetic Intelligence some real power. William Seidman, Ph.D.
CEO, Cerebyte, Inc.