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

unnecessary difficulties. The parts of an ensemble are not inter-

changeable; casting choices are interdependent. Indeed, an

actor seeking a role will often be asked to read the part with a

number of other actors, so that the director can choose among

combinations, not individuals. Gene Kranz reports that team

member interdependencies were prominent in the minds of

those who made mission-control staffing decisions: “The

branch chiefs carefully matched the personalities and strengths

of controllers to those of the individual flight directors.”

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Fiscal Responsibility in

Artful Making

Most business people rarely think about management in

arts organizations. ...