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|Proposition for a blogpost in “Leaders we deserve” |
|Level Six Leadership |
|GE&L BRAZIL |
LEVEL SIX LEADERSHIP
Since well before Alan Bryman identifying the emergence of what we now call "The New Leadership Movement of the 1980's”, Venezuela's poor communities were already experiencing the positive results arising from an exemplary transformational leadership, which has now worldwide recognition.
José Antonio Abreu is a Venezuelan economist (PhD in Petroleum Economics) who built a brilliant career in his country at the time it lived its oil industry dawn. But Abreu, who is also a lover of classical music, was always capable of reconciling the study of piano, organ, harp, composition and conducting with the exercise of his profession as an economist. From personal experience, Abreu has always recognized the transformative power of music. His professional success did not make him blind at the scarcity in which most of the Venezuelan population lived. Instead, Abreu has always felt himself responsible for doing something to change this situation. In 1975, aged 36, he decided to act. He bought instruments, managed to gather 11 poor children, taught them to perform the first scores, and took them to a public rehearsal in an underground parking area. The initiative bore fruit: in no time there were hundreds of children wanting to learn to play an instrument. Because of his professional awards in Economics, Abreu was quickly able to find state support for his project. Thus was born, in 1976, the Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestras Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela (FESNOJIV for short), known as "El Sistema”, which he still heads today.
Surely, classical music lovers around the world already know Gustavo Dudamel, a breed of "El Sistema", which now runs, apart from Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra (SBSO, former SBYOV), also the Los Angeles...