Who should manage our banks

A business man was looking at buying an art works from Art Burshy today, visiting Art in his atelier. The man was at the point of buying a piece of art when Art Burshy exploded.

By itself Art Burshy never invites people in his atelier, and especially not when he is working on an art work. It distracts him, takes him out of his creative flow by making him focus on his painting and making it beautiful.
This potential client was a banker and very interested in art, asking loads of questions. At the start Art was in a good mood, even liking to explain someone the basics of modern and conceptual art.
Art explained him the critical elements of true art:
- it requires skills so that the brush and materials become part of your senses, e\and nothing takes your mind away from expressing your deepest feelings.
- it has to be part of a meaningful journey; it needs to touch the artist so the art work becomes the consolidation of an authentic story. And then it can touch others.
- it has to be beautiful and discomforting at the same time. Beautiful to tempt the viewer to get involved, and it has to be uneasy and confronting to move people towards introspection. A famous artist once said: Art is beauty and pity. Without pity it is just design.

The banker was listening to all Art's stories, and asking more and more questions.
Then, while Art was working to add final touches to the art work, the man said:
"well, I still do not fully understand your art...but that's like you would not really understand my banking".

This hit a nerve and Art exploded.
- who says that bankers understand their own business?
- what should be the real drive of managers running a bank; money or the drive to be part of a meaningful journey?
- what is so unique about the skills that bankers require...creative skills are very close to mathematical skills and a key requirement to be successful in both art and banking.
The banker was looking to avoid further escalation by asking if there are no other options or ways to look at it.
But Art Burshy's eruption could not be stopped, it came from deeper layers of agony pushing up the lava of anger.

It ended with the banker leaving.
It will not surprise you that he did not buy an art piece, but it seemed that Art did not really care...