Leadership and Play

Never entirely enamoured of the leadership business, but this is quite an acute analysis from Manfred Kets De Vries - who reaches for the p-word:

Healthy leaders have the ability to deal with the disappointments of life... Very importantly, they have the capacity to establish and manage relationships. Their lives are in balance and they can play.

IE, they're like we all should be, except they have baroquely titled consultants to help develop the lineaments of their superior psyches. I wonder what a school for playership would be like?

Update: I like this paper from the new Demos collection (see above) on network-age leadership. Still, I think playership might be worth thinking about...