Natural Born Leaders. Playful Leadership and Complexity Resilience

Table of Contents

A. Literature Review: Leadership & Environmental Ethics
1. Leadership
a. Status Quo Leadership & Conventional Leaders
b. Alternative Models of Leadership
i) Spiritual Leadership
ii) Adaptive Leadership
iii) Stewardship Theory of Management
2. Ethics
a. What are Ethics?
b. Hattingh’s Environmental Ethics Typology
i) Criticism of Hattingh’s typology
c. Worldview’s Typology
d. Applying the worldview Typology to (Environmental) Ethics
3. Bringing the threads together: Worldviews, Ethics & Leadership

B. Personal Case Study: Who am I? What kind of Leader do I want to be(come)?
1. Heading a Start-up that Creates Societal Change and Inspires Individual Behaviour Change
2. Learning from the “Best” – Children as Role Models for “Playful Leadership”
a. Flow – Playfulness & Creativity
b. Born as Leaders
c. Entrepreneurship & Frugal Innovation
d. Intuition – Giving voice to immersive, holistic Beings
e. Conscious Irrationality – Being aware of the Rationality Myth
f. Forgiveness & Vulnerability - “Failure is Just a Way of Learning”
g. Ecological Empathy: Biophilia & Ecological Literacy
h. Further research potential with regards to children’s leadership potential
3. “Playful Leadership” –Pitfalls & Redemption
a. Pitfalls
i) Recklessness
ii) Childishness
b. Redemption
i) Complex Systems & Adaptation
ii) Reiteration
iii) Trust

C. Playful Leadership in Practice
1. Meet “Project 90 for 2030”
2. Interview with Tina Schubert
3. Principles of Playful Leadership visible at P90

D. Conclusion

E. Annex
1. Bibliography
2. Personal Journal
3. Creative Products from within the week
a. The Throne of the Dragonfly (A Haiku-poem)
b. Who am I? (incomplete)