Required reading alert: Business Week’s blogs tend to be of superb quality, but if you don’t have space for much else in your overstuffed reader at least wiggle Bruce Nussbaum’s column into your RSS. This from his “CEO’s must be designers not just hire them“..
the very old and very boring question is whether or not designers and their teachers have ended their distaste for commerce and business culture. I have nothing to say about this except that this debate about art and commerce is so last century. If you are even discussing the issue, you are way behind. If you haven’t fully integrated your design, engineering, business and marketing students and faculty into teams on a regular and systemic basis, you are behind.
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There are two great barriers to innovation and design in the world today. Ignorant CEOs and ignorant designers. Both groups are well-intentioned and well-dressed—in their own ways—but both can be pretty dangerous characters.
I read that and cheered because I popped up a quick blog: Business Acumen for Artists and some online PR in support of a superb course that bridges the divide. The program will be run by the GSB’s visionary Executive Education director, Elaine Rumboll and all proceeds of the 13 week course go to strengthening the Observatory Community Centre. We’ve reached the point where we can’t afford to be lopsided in using our brains. Operating from both hemispheres is imperative to future success. Dan Pink’s “Whole New Mind” is a worthwhile read if you haven’t picked it up yet. Business leaders need to be visionaries and creative problem-solvers, and artists to be balanced with practical administrative skills for success.
Dostoyevsky once said: Continue reading ’strategic leadership skill of the future : design’
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The SA Free Culture Tour is incoming.. bringing with it the world-changing brilliance of Jimmy Wales and Lawrence Lessig (little confession: I leapt around the office like a demented fool when I heard: hunters of genius evidently have different stars in their celebrity constellation.. this doesn’t make EVERYONE’S heart pound faster but for us online mainliners, it’s huge!) There are talks at the various universities and at the Internet Society of SA ..and then there’s a PARTY!!
Heather Ford & the iCommons crew with the crowdsourced creativity & logistics of the community’s event meisters, artists, musicians and more are slinging together a classic South African Bringn’Braai on the 20th of April 2007 at the Armchair Theatre in Obz right here in the little mothercity.
PS. If you’re a musician PLEASE consider contributing some beats to the Free Music Project - it’ll get into the ears of little ones around the world all wrapped up with the One Laptop per Child project
PPS. the braai aspect of this event is the burning of some of the Commons’ music feast with the Freedom Toasters supplied. The spirit of sharing back from the (Grateful) Dead still rocking it hard
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thanks so much to my friend Stii - who I suspect doesn’t sleep much because he is a PROLIFIC hunter of extraordinary bits of brilliance, webtools & webbeauty: constantly delivering gems to enjoy on StumbleUpon and beyond - this was one of his discoveries.
It hustled the muses around me whispering of heart.soaring inspiration.. siren-calling the artist in me to dive dangerously back in. This is utterly exquisite & one of those bizarrely underrated youtube offerings.
Beware it’s entrancing & quite hypnotic:
clear 10 minutes of tranquility for this1, it’s worth it
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PS. anti-tranquility update - (while I fix the plugin conflicts from the Wordpress 2.1 upgrade my Youtube embeds may not show) pop over here to watch this beautiful one
.. if this is the case here
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..know those times when you feel the earth move? When titanic shifts are rumbling under your feet, you can’t see their effect yet, but you KNOW that when they break ground it’ll be momentous?! Last week was one of those big ole techtonic* shake-ups for me.
Think it may’ve started with the meet.up with the force of nature known as Mike Stopfornothing! [Boom! This man ROCKS! and has the energy to light up a city... put him on your radar if you haven't already].
The dovetailing synchronicity of surprising events is speeding up which is always a precursor to an evolutionary earthquake.
The last time this happened I was on sabbatical; so terrified and full of blazing rage I poured my heart onto a canvas to avoid being consumed
Continue reading ‘Rock my world’
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