Intimate Innovation

Listening to a group of conference goers talk about a workshop on tango strategy – they said several things about communications and resistance

• the importance of resistance in the ‘hold’ that makes it possible to dance with a partner
• without resistance there can be no communication between the partners – at least not of intent
• you open yourself as a leader for the follower  to move into in their own time
• you show intention with the body – by tipping, resisting, moving – ahead of the actual move

Strategic communication depends on tension being felt, being out in the open, between you – so out strategy syllogism runs as follows

• without the tension of resistance, without the resistance of tension – there would be no communication;
• without communication, there would be no dance;
• therefore, without resistance, there would be no dance – at least not together.

So, the resistance creates the conditions under which it is possible to communicate strategy. I wonder what leaders learn as a result of being followed……?