Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work

teacher’s pen, achieves a desired action but in unpredictable

ways, as it follows the “gravity” created by the ensemble.

Release allows artful makers to move past tensions and

inhibitions to gain access to original ideas and outrageous

thoughts. For managers and business team members, release

moves a person beyond vanity toward a new willingness to

express strange, new ideas, to collaborate freely and thus dis-

cover a new range of responses to the work of others in the

ensemble. When mastered, Release allows workers to reach

their edges, to experience without mental or emotional com-

plications the discomfort of an edge caused by tension, to

practice ...