Craft, Art, Creativity, and Leadership

Steven S. Taylor

Chapter Chapter One in Leadership Craft, Leadership Art, 2012, pp 1-11 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Human beings have always been masters of craft. We make things, and some of those things we decorate to make them special. Our ancestors spent a lot of their time making things such as knives and adding complex decorations to the handles to make the knife have some meaning that was different from that of other knives. When I was a teenager, it was commonplace to add patches or embroidery or otherwise decorate your blue jeans to make them special. This creating and making special are the origins of craft and art.1 The Industrial Revolution consisted largely of taking traditional crafts and turning them into modern production processes by taking the variance out of the process, by breaking the process down into its component parts and making assembly lines, and by introducing machinery and automating as much of the process as possible. Our material standard of living has increased greatly as a result.

Keywords: Ative Process; Creative Process; Home Gardening; Creative Mind; Painter Paint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137012784_1

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