Creative Business Leaders
b'"GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART"
~Andy Warhol
Art is an integral part of business \\u2014 from operations to customer service. Thought leaders and small business cultivators who embrace the arts and their creative tendencies are typically the ones emerging as trend-setters and trailblazers.
Business Leaders are CREATIVE CULTIVATORS
Like artists and actors, start-up founders are the movers and shakers of the entrepreneurial world and the forerunners of new business ventures.
With sophisticated analytical tools available to ALL OF US as small business owners... our processes are more efficient. Therefore, we need something... ORIGINAL and DYNAMIC ...to set us apart.
Our intuition and creativity are the factors that differentiate us from our competitors. Your unique and distinctive qualities should not be exploited-- only EXPLORED.
Be a Better Business Leader...
...study the Arts!
Artists have an insatiable appetite for making new connections, inventing, reinventing, and finding new meaning in the mundane. That\\u2019s exactly what innovation is all about.
The BEST Business leaders are Humanists
If artists are experts of the human condition, then as entrepreneurs, we need to observe human desires, needs, emotions, and behavior with a sharp, discerning eye and a high degree of empathy.
Identifying with our clients and consumers is an innovator\\u2019s distinct strength.
\\u201cEvery child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.\\u201d ~Pablo Picasso
Artists retain a child\\u2019s unique sense of possibility and wonder, and who better to learn from today\'s children than Mom and Dad innovators? Seeing the world through your children\'s eyes reconnects us with a basic human quest for exploration.... which ultimately cultivates the best million dollar ideas.
Innovations are very often based on intuition
Nothing brings out our intuitions faster than being a parent entrepreneur. The way we\'ve learned to anticipate the unexpected is a DYNAMIC SKILL, and similar to being able to predict new industry trends and make decisions swiftly (not to mention our knack for being able to thrive under financial or time constraints!) In fact, these constraints might even STIMULATE our creativity.
On Today\'s show...
I\'ll be introducing you to a FANTASTIC leader in Buisness Education, Melinda F. Emerson. Her bestselling book, Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months is widely regarded as one of the best start-up books ever written. Melinda is incredibly engaging and encourages personal and professional growth of women entrepreneurs.
Joining me as a guest co-host will be my long-time friend and collaborator, Tom Fiscella, who is currently touring the country as an actor in the critically acclaimed show Jersey Boys and who also once directed me in a one-woman show... many lifetimes ago.'