The August issue of Fast Company magazine has an article for the for-profit corporate set on How to Lead Now (ie, in a down economy), subtitled ‘Getting Extraordinary Performance When You Can’t Pay for It.’ It outlines those astounding business leaders who build a sense of purpose and personal connection among their workers, who extract […]
Attend the Arts…or Die…
Colin Jackson, a good friend and an ‘artful manager’ from Calgary, forwarded a link to this Swedish study that concludes: Attendance at cultural events may have a positive influence on survival. For the visually-inclined, the report also includes this handy chart (suitable for framing) of the estimated survival of people attending cultural events often, occasionally, […]
The Clap Trap
Rupert Christiansen’s latest on the increasingly tepid applause at UK performing arts events makes an interesting guess at the cause: “We are repeatedly exposed to the sounds and images of extreme drama, both actual and fictional. This may mean that the excitement that live music stimulates is less intense and surprising – we hear it, […]
That’s One Big Canary!
Bernard Holland’s June 29th article in the New York Times, “How to Kill Orchestras,” (which managed to offend both orchestra managers and arts administration programs like mine…so it can’t be all bad) is just the latest in a series of panic pieces on the death of the American symphony. Certainly, the orchestra’s operating model is […]
What’s It All About?
So what’s this blog called ‘The Artful Manager’? Sounds a bit glib. Sounds a bit like a Highly Effective Habits for Habit-Listing People approach to arts management. I hope it’s neither…but it may be both. This blog is intended to be an on-line extension of the conversations I’ve been having throughout my work with arts […]
