Showing posts with label diversity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diversity. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 April 2013

Art in business

This time Art is applying for a new job.
It is very difficult as a living artist to get by.
So a side-job would be great to have a bit of stability in life.
And he thought to apply for a managers position...as he feels he could teach people quite a bit.
In his mind companies more and more focus on (a)squeezing the last cost out of the company, (b) monitor all employees' every minute spent and (c)adopting the latest flavor of methodology and (d) jump on the newest managerial hype.

Art Burshy feels it is time to re-focus on inspiration, learning from concepts in art.
It seems so logical that the best performing teams are the ones with motivated and maybe even happy people.
And when overstructuring jobs, the pleasure is structured away, people lose a sense of fun.
And life is not about running and finding the answer to every issue and question. It is about learning to ask the real questions, like an artist.

And wow, somehow to his own surprise now Art even reached the last 2 candidates.
This seemed such a great company; they had a great social campaign, they have an environmentally friendly building, they advertised the need for diversity...
and looking around they could use a bit of diversity... A good moment to hire a nice middle aged artist with a little bit of business experience but lots of life experience.
Nowadays everybody is a manager by the way, so it cant be difficult, so why could it not be Art.

But somehow, in the back of his mind a little alarm bell is ringing...everything here is soo consistent, all the same, same suits, same expression, and...
Well he starts to wonder; despite the advertised company policy, the corporate responsibility programs, the people-are-our-most-valuable-assets program, the fantastic smiles and empathic looks...
he somehow starts to think that just in the end they might stick to old habits...
and maybe not take this unique opportunity to choose an enrichment to what they already have, to hire an artist that is full of energy and ready to get started.

Well, time will tell...