The Fine Art of Success: How Learning Great Art Can Create Great Business - Hardcover

Anderson, Jamie; Reckhenrich, J246;rg; Kupp, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470661062 ISBN 13: 9780470661062

Verlag: Wiley, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

You've read about Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner and Steve Jobs - but what can you learn about business from van Gogh and Picasso?

The Fine Art of Success shows why you should look to pop-stars like Madonna or artists like Damian Hirst for guidance on innovation, competitive advantage, leadership, and a host of other business issues.

Managers, marketing professionals, and students will see how these creative artists can help their organizations. Chapters include Madonna - Strategy at the dance floor; Damian Hirst - The shark is dead/How to build yourself a new market; Beuys – Understanding creativity, is every manager an artist; Picasso – Art lessons for global managers; Koons – Made in Heaven produced on eart; and Paik – Global Groove, innovation through juxtaposition.

With controversial ideas, fascinating facts and memorable examples, The Fine Art of Success delivers business lessons that you'll be eager to apply.

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JAMIE ANDERSON is jointly Professor in Strategic Management at Antwerp Management School and the Lorange Institute in Switzerland, and visiting lecturer at London Business School. His articles have appeared in publications such as California Management Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. Jamie has developed executive programs focused on strategy and innovation for many Fortune 500 companies, and is a best-selling case author.

JÖRG RECKHENRICH is artist and founder of Art-Thinking Consulting, and Professor of Innovation and Creativity at the Lorange Institute, Switzerland. He is also visiting lecturer at London Business School and ESMT Berlin. Named as one of the 'Top 25 Management Thinkers of the year' by the management journal Business Strategy Review, Jörg works with many prominent international firms. He has developed a tool for evaluating the creativity of top-level management in large corporations that has been adopted by a leading executive search firm.

MARTIN KUPP is a program director and member of the faculty at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin. Martin has been widely published in journals like California Management Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Business Strategy Review, Rotman Magazine, Wall Street Journal and the Economic Times of India. He is an award winning case author, and conducts seminars on the writing and teaching of case studies at academic institutions around the world.

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Innovation is the 'buzz' topic for the 21st century manager. Now it's time to learn from those who have been doing it for centuries creative artists.

Wondering how your firm can sustain competitive advantage? This book suggests you might look to contemporary artist Damian Hirst, or pop-star Madonna for guidance on successful strategies for driving innovation and creativity in business.

This book is a fresh and entertaining course on key strategies for successful business innovation. The authors analyse the success of artists through the lens of management theory and ask what practising managers can learn from the way creative artists innovate. They show that there are real lessons for managers from the success of artists such as Joesph Beuys, Madonna, Pablo Picasso and others, and that many of these lessons can be applied within the firm.

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Innovation is the ‘buzz' topic for the 21st century manager. Now it's time to learn from those who have been doing it for centuries - creative artists. Wondering how your firm can sustain competitive advantage? This book suggests you might look to contemporary artist Damian Hirst, or pop-star Madonna for guidance on successful strategies for driving innovation and creativity in business

This book is a fresh and entertaining course on key strategies for successful business innovation. The authors analyse the success of artists through the lens of management theory and ask what practising managers can learn from the way creative artists innovate. They show that there are real lessons for managers from the success of artists such as Joesph Beuys, Madonna, Pablo Picasso and others, and that many of these lessons can be applied within the firm.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470661062
• ISBN 13: 9780470661062
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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