{"id":543,"date":"2011-02-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artstrategies.org\/tools\/readinglist\/?p=543"},"modified":"2011-02-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T12:00:00","slug":"business-has-much-to-learn-from-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2011\/02\/business-has-much-to-learn-from-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Business has much to learn from the arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rubric aptureTMMSelection\">A wry, brief paean to the arts and what the world of business has to learn from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rubric aptureTMMSelection\"><em>Many businesspeople, for their part, assume that artists are a bunch of  pretentious wastrels. Bosses may stick a few modernist daubs on their  boardroom walls. They may go on corporate jollies to the opera. They may  even write the odd cheque to support their wives\u2019 bearded friends. But  they seldom take the arts seriously as a source of inspiration. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"rubric aptureTMMSelection\"><em>Studying the arts can&#8230;help companies learn how to manage bright  people. Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones of the London Business School point  out that today\u2019s most productive companies are dominated by what they  call \u201cclevers\u201d, who are the devil to manage. They hate being told what  to do by managers, whom they regard as dullards. They refuse to submit  to performance reviews. In short, they are prima donnas. The arts world  has centuries of experience in managing such difficult people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/18175675?story_id=18175675&amp;CFID=156631474&amp;CFTOKEN=94110188\">Schumpeter: The art of management | The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wry, brief paean to the arts and what the world of business has to learn from them. Many businesspeople, for their part, assume that artists are a bunch of pretentious wastrels. Bosses may stick a few modernist daubs on their boardroom walls. They may go on corporate jollies to the opera. They may even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[233,256,169,188,430,441],"coauthors":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-reading-list","7":"tag-arts","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-innovation","10":"tag-management","11":"tag-talent","12":"tag-titian","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}