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By going beyond the dehydrated language of management, you tap into far more creative expression...Perhaps Peter Drucker, Michael Porter and Tom Peters should be nervously looking over their shoulders. When it comes to the management guru business, the likes of Picasso, Monet and da Vinci could be the faces of the future...

Qué pueden tener en común el arte y el management? Esa pregunta es la que ha logrado responder Nancy Adler, una mujer exitosa en ambas disciplinas y cuya filosofía se adecua perfectamente a la necesidad que tienen las empresas de estar innovando constantemente…

The world of business has a lot to learn from art and artists…. Designing innovative options requires more than traditional analytical skills taught during the past half century in most MBA programs. Rather it requires skills that creative artists have used for year. …

There is a lot common ground to creating a great art work or a great business. …You'd be hard pressed to find a painter who didn't approach a blank canvas wanting to produce something of high quality, but all too often people in the commercial world end up settling for the just-good-enough. …

Tomorrow's leaders must borrow from the spontaneity, adaptability, inventiveness and collaboration of the artist to tackle rapidly evolving and unpredictable problems. …For great artists and leaders to have a huge impact, they have to be able to think for themselves…. Exceptional leaders are those able to draw inspiration from spiritual as well as mundane sources and to articulate and communicate symbolically and artistically. …

Artists and business leaders used to be widely perceived as polar opposites. In today's world, however, the corporate managers most likely to prosper are those who conduct themselves more like artists, innovating and responding quickly to stimulus. …

Finland’s Aalto University, in merging three top universities, is promoting innovation by bringing together technology, economics and the arts. ...Adler, an expert in the field of global leadership, was the keynote speaker at the recent international conference “Creative Economy and Beyond”. Hosted by Finland, the conference explored the role of creativity in the economy and society in the 21st century. …

The goal is to throw cold water on the notion you can’t run a business if the sight of a delicately brushed flower touches your soul. …Adler is a pioneer in the growing trend to integrate the arts into business education and management training. ... Business must “envision the beautiful, not just the less bad.” …

«Seul le rapprochement de l'art et du leadership peut permettre de ralentir la cadence folle du milieu contemporain des affaires, précise-t-elle. L'art permet de créer un espace de réflexion et de beauté, qui sont des ingrédients nécessaires à un meilleur leadership.» …

The words “inspiration,” “reflection” and “beauty” are not ones you’d ordinarily expect to hear from a management professor. But then, Nancy Adler is no ordinary professor. …She asks, “How do you design options worthy of choosing?” … and stresses the importance of finding and creating beauty in the world. …

Traditionally, we have labeled business and societal innovation as entrepreneurship; today we recognize it as artistry. …Warren Buffett has described himself by saying, “I am not a businessman, I am an artist.” Buffett, of course, is a famously astute businessman. But his vision sets him apart from the crowd. His canvas is the economy. …

Tomorrow's leaders must borrow from the spontaneity, adaptability, inventiveness and collaboration of the artist to tackle rapidly evolving and unpredictable problems. …For great artists and leaders to have a huge impact, they have to be able to think for themselves…. Exceptional leaders are those able to draw inspiration from spiritual as well as mundane sources and to articulate and communicate symbolically and artistically. …

Artists and business leaders used to be widely perceived as polar opposites. In today's world, however, the corporate managers most likely to prosper are those who conduct themselves more like artists, innovating and responding quickly to stimuli. …

Can we come back to seeing the beauty in the world? How do we reclaim our profoundly human role as creators and as leaders? Not the sort of questions one would imagine preoccupying those in the cut-throat business world. …Venture capitalist David Lank says the artist and the entrepreneur face a similar "frightening challenge.” They both start with something blank and have to make sure they "end up with something wonderful"…

A healthy financial bottom line is necessary, but it is no longer sufficient. … Successful and influential business leaders and artists aren’t so different. Both have the courage to see reality the way it is …and to see possibility, even when others don’t. …

There is a lot common ground to creating a great art work or a great business. …You'd be hard pressed to find a painter who didn't approach a blank canvas wanting to produce something of high quality, but all too often people in the commercial world end up settling for the just-good-enough. …

Finland’s Creative Economy and Beyond conference discussed the true meaning of creative excellence in companies, innovation policy and the public sector. … and emphasized the importance of transforming possibilities of art and reality. ...New kinds of leaders are important to the whole economy. …

Creative Economy and Beyond Conference discussed in Finland’s highly respected, TAKU magazine, published by Finland’s main labour market organization representing the work force in the creative sectors. …

The Master of Fine Arts will soon become a much sought-after business degree because "designing innovative options requires more than the traditional analytical skills taught during the past half century. Rather, it requires skills that creative artists have used for years." As they re-invent the MBA for the 21st century, business schools are going beyond the 'dehydrated' language of management…

The world of business has a lot to learn from art and artists. …”As the business environment more frequently calls upon managers to respond to unpredictable threats and opportunities, the ability to improvise increasingly determines organisations’ effectiveness…

Perché al centro di un’impresa di successo c’è il processo creativo… [Because in the center of a successful enterprise is the creative process….]

Qué pueden tener en común el arte y el management? Esa pregunta es la que ha logrado responder Nancy Adler, una mujer exitosa en ambas disciplinas y cuya filosofía se adecua perfectamente a la necesidad que tienen las empresas de estar innovando constantemente…

Leaders need to be artists because of the challenges they are facing today. There is no way that we’ll have the type of society or planet we want in the 21st century if we continue using old 20th century solutions. The question is not anymore can we make the right decisions, but can we create options worthy of choosing. …In order to create worthy options leaders have to also be creators and create worthy options.”

Effective business leaders and artists have three things in common …

Art can contribute to the shift in managers’ and artists’ business thinking. …Econometrics doesn’t have a vocabulary that would make this possible. Art allows us to broaden our vocabulary;… it makes it possible to shift from ‘decision making’ to ‘design thinking’.

Take time for a concert or exhibition…

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Vsak dan si je treba vzeti čas za premislek o tem, kaj je smiselno, kaj deluje in kaj je dobro. Tišina in razmislek vodita k pametnejšemu delu… - Every day we need to take some time to think about what is reasonable, what works, and what is good. Silence and consideration leads towards smarter work…

Slikarka in strokovnjakinja za menedžment… - Nancy Adler, painter and management expert…

Es pintora y profesora de gestión empresarial y ha aunado las dos vocaciones en su celebrada teoría sobre liderazgo creative. … - She is a painter and professor of business management and has combined the two vocations in her celebrated theory of creative leadership. …

Canadiense Nancy Adler ha extendido su vision del liderazgo, basado en la creatividad, por los cinco continentes. Su última parada ha sido Bilbao, donde ha aprovechado el marco incomparable que ofrece el museo Guggenheim para impartir seminarios a los alumnos de Deusto Business School, que han tomado conciencia de lo que aporta el arte al mundo de los negocios… - …leadership based on the creativity on 5 continents…

«Los líderes creativos no sólo toman decisiones, sino que diseñan oportunidades» …Adler, La profesora californiana – nació y se crió inspirada por Silicon Valley– lo define como «liderar de forma bella»... - "Creative leaders don’t only make decisions, they design opportunities" …California Professor Adler grew up inspired by Silicon Valley where leadership is defined as leading beautifully...

New language of leadership: what managers can learn from art

Business itself is perhaps best viewed as an art-form of sorts, and the whole point of an MBA is to teach people to be more artistic in their business lives. …Business education should look beyond numbers to bring insight to the CEOs of tomorrow. … At McGill in Montreal, Professor Nancy Adler uses the examples of Picasso and other modernists …

Interview of Nancy Adler, as an artist and professor of management by Financial Times journalist Charlotte Clarke.

Schools are taking a creative approach to their courses to foster leaders as comfortable with the finer points of art and design as with a balance sheet. … Running a business nowadays calls for "levels of inspiration and creativity that are more the domain of artists than of most managers.

By going beyond the dehydrated language of management, you tap into far more creative expression...Perhaps Peter Drucker, Michael Porter and Tom Peters should be nervously looking over their shoulders. When it comes to the management guru business, the likes of Picasso, Monet and da Vinci could be the faces of the future... 

Business leaders have looked to a multitude of sources for inspiration–famously successful industry pioneers, modern-day CEOs, former presidents and world leaders …This article focuses on business leaders using art for inspiration… [and on the belief] that art can help business leaders unlock their own potential and creativity, leading them to find solutions and approaches that they might not otherwise imagine. …

Many MBA programs around the world are enbracing arts-based learning as a means to help their students develop or enhance such important leadership qualities as insight, creativity, teamwork, and social responsibility…

Adler, winner of the Prix du Quebec’s Prix Léon-Guérin for the humanities, has been a pioneer in the increasingly important integration of art and design with business and societal leadership. An accomplished artist as well as a respected management researcher, Adler has brought artistic approaches into her work with managers and executives worldwide for more than a decade. …

Business leadership in the 21st century calls for levels of inspiration and creativity that have been more the domain of artists than the atavistic approaches than of most managers. Business education needs to create "renaissance MBAs," managers and professionals who are as familiar with history, philosophy and design as they are with a business plan or a balance sheet…