I recently had the experience of a reviewer (for Organization Science)
telling me that my writing should be more beautiful. The reviewer was
suggesting that if I was serious about aesthetics than the reviewers should
be judging the writing on beauty. I tend to agree. Unfortunately for me
that didn't mean they weren't also applying more traditional criteria, so it
translates into the bar being that much higher. But I have to say that I am
okay with this because it does open the door for including artistic criteria
in the assessment.
Personally, when I hear Daved's question, I find myself more interested in
what would businesses that have taken seriously the idea of management as an
art look like? I have dreams of leaders and managers caring as much about
whether their actions are beautiful (or comic or sublime or whatever
aesthetic category they aspire to) as they care about whether they will
produce profit and are doing the right thing. For me that would be a really
interesting triple bottom line - artistic, moral, and aesthetic results.
Just waiting for today's snow storm,
Steve
On 4/9/07 1:38 PM, "Daved Barry" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm not sure what other things might change. I'd really welcome more of
> these 'what would/could a Business Arts Academy look like?' scenarios from
> the rest of you--it's a good exercise I think. And maybe it will help whisk
> things on their way. Teike, Philippe, Henrik, Claus (and others of you who
> are professionally trained artists getting MOS PhDs) . . . you're in a good
> position to say something about this! Lucy? Deborah? Vicki? Brad? Eric? Some
> of you other SCOS denizens as well ;-)--Steve Linstead, Heather? D
>
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Department of Management
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