ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses mysticism might help clarify and inform what is at issue in the activities we call management seems acutely silly. The rational and reality-oriented world of management appears as remote as we might imagine from the realm of metaphysical, mystical speculation. The chapter focuses on those activities of management normally referred to as leadership and supervision, particularly leadership and supervision of teachers. The premise for Borowitz's argument is the implicit assertion that central to any leadership activity is the intent of creation. If the link between mystic conceptions of creation and the core creative intent of supervision is accepted, a critical contemplation of Borowitz's analogy raises some basic concerns. Borowitz's discussion is not, however, without problems for it opens up several basic questions concerning the possibility and responsibility of educational leadership. The author defines and discusses, shows how the concepts and thought of critical Marxist theory suggest directions for addressing these questions.
