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

by Rob Austin, Lee Devin
April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
7h 6m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work
Essential Themes
Three essential themes arise from our study of artful making:
1. Successfully getting reliable innovation from knowl-
edge workers requires a diligent faith in an impeccable
process, knowing that it will produce something of
value before a firm deadline.
2. Managing knowledge workers calls for collaboration
without detailed or coercive direction, keeping in
mind that you can’t supervise talented employees in
any conventional sense; you must lead them with pas-
sionate support and faith in their work.
3. Innovation in knowledge work requires de-stigmatiz-
ing “mistakes” and “failures,” celebrating them as
steps on the path to innovation. ...
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