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

that Sun’s methods and processes are in fact like those of col-

laborative artists. To do this, we move from the hive of cubicles

in Silicon Valley and the office complexes of Detroit to the old

public library building in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

We enter a big room, full of light from tall windows on three

sides, cluttered with odds and ends of furniture, the shiny old

floor marked with stripes of colored adhesive tape. At one side

sits a desk. At the desk are the play’s director with a yellow legal

pad and a cup full of pens, the stage manager with her kit of

emergency supplies and a copy of the script, and the assistant

stage manager with her script ...