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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..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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“As once the winged energy of delight carried you over childhood’s dark abysses, now beyond your own life build the great arch of unimagined bridges” - Rilke
Wintery Sunday morning all foggy outside, a mug of rich velvety hot chocolate, broadband …aaaah heavenly :) The teeny little girl on my lap in head-to-toe pinkness has just been introduced to Cute Overload ..interspersed with occassional beeps of the IM (from my matey Rafiq who’s still in bed and connecting on Mxit and then from my brother Dave, working on a Sunday :-/). Alex (the 4yr old laptop) shows me the camera & tells me about Skyping her granny in the States.. and wants to see who I’m speaking to (real-time typing an acceptable form of speaking to her) .. we tootle over to Flickr, where she recognises the painting hanging in the lounge from my photos on Flickr.. and so it goes.. her world seamlessly connected into mixed-reality existence, as with all Born Digital babes, this interconnectedness is normal :-) We are building the multidimensional worlds they will live and work in. NOW.
Continue reading ‘Building Bridges for the Born Digital’
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