Art For Business 2008 – First Impressions and Text
Art For Business 2008 in Milano has started today and I really had to struggle to understand at least a little bit of the keynote speakers at the opening (because everything was in Italian…).
As a preparation for my ex-cathedra-speech tomorrow I will put a download of my text here: Self-Leadership as an art.
My key points are:
1. Change Agents should learn, test, and use mind-sets, methods, and instruments from the world of art to shift context and perspective.
2. Lots of successful leaders in business already use skills, approaches, and mind-sets similar to those of artists. And SELF-LEADERSHIP is an art in itself.
3. To find out how we can “use art” in human capital development we should scrutinize, maybe test, the life and oeuvre of artists.
Especially concerning the last point I suggest to take a look at the text on How to survive as an artist (about Duchamp as a role model) to which I refer in my speech in the Art For Business Forum session. If you are interested to know more about it you might as well want to take a look at my Squidoo-Lenses…
And finally for some of my ongoing gymnastics in the world of art see my laboratorio-pages.
