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

A Whole Greater than the

Sum of its Parts

For most of us, the kind of interaction that happens when

working with a really terrific team is work as good as it gets.

Talk with a colleague who has been part of a highly effective

team and you’ll often get a

sense that work has never been

as gratifying since. This can

matter more than money, or

promotions, or any of the other conventional trappings of suc-

cess. People know when they’re working well, when they’re on

fire with excellence. But it doesn’t happen in an environment

of fear. It doesn’t happen unless working on the edge is a pos-

sibility.

As the web of associations among people and ideas grows,

each ...