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4 of 4 people found the following review to be helpful:

How to use artistic flow patterns to use emotion, imagination and intuition to improve the outputs of a job,  July 4, 2005

By Midwest Book Review

Whether you're a student, a business executive or an aspiring artist, all can benefit from seeing the world through eyes blending aesthetic appreciation and strategy. Using the artist's eye, The Art Of Business: Make All Your Work A Work Of Art shows how to use artistic flow patterns to use emotion, imagination and intuition to improve the outputs of a job. Even a company can benefit from blending the two flows of aesthetic and emotional richness with strategic fine tuning, using The Art Of Business as a guide.





6 of 7 people found the following review to be helpful:

Seeing, Hearing and Acting on the AND Rather Than the OR,  March 19, 2005

By Professor Donald Mitchell

Many authors exhort us to hold two seemingly opposed notions in our mind if we want to make business breakthroughs. That idea is an important principle in the business classic, Built to Last. It's common for business experts to also espouse the idea of balancing perspectives such as the quantitative with the qualitative, the financial with a customer focus, and vision with practicality.

More recently, some authors have started to see parallels between the worlds of the arts and business, such as in The Art of Possibility.

The Art of Business represents the culmination of these new views of leadership by encouraging us to "make all your work a work of art." Although on the surface, that sounds simply like taking an artful and business-like approach, at a deeper level the book is addressing a very old tradition . . . that of craftsmanship -- creating something that rewards the soul as well as the body. The example in the book that resonated most with me was the new business model and product thinking behind the Apple iPod.

If you are prepared to open your mind to more rewarding work and providing more rewards to those who employ your work in their lives, The Art of Business will help you expand your horizons in ways that will leave the world richer.

This book will be of most value to those who understand a lot about how to manage what is . . . but aren't sure how to create what is needed, but doesn't exist yet. People who are interested in business model innovation will find this book contains powerful perspectives and paradigms that will enable that important work which I describe in The Ultimate Competitive Advantage.

Bravo, Mssrs. David and McIntosh!





5 of 6 people found the following review to be helpful:

Find the Aesthetic,  April 22, 2005

By Eleanor Fina

The Art of Business, with its subtitle "Make All your Work a Work of Art", adds an exciting perspective for bringing out the aesthetic possibilities in all work, even that of those whose main work is home and volunteer service.





5 of 6 people found the following review to be helpful:

Art and business can learn from each other,  January 23, 2005

By Michael A. Damato

The popular view is that art and business are separate spheres of life. If not incompatible, pretty close. What these authors do is make an excellent case that this is not true and specifically that there is much that business can learn from art. They then offer specific suggestions. It is a very interesting and thought provoking book. It made me think differently about business and even a bit differently about life in general. Well worth the read.





2 of 2 people found the following review to be helpful:

A life-affirming book,  August 17, 2005

By C. Perlmutter

"Outside the box" can be a good thing, in books, in business and in art. How often does a business book affirm the things that are most important in life (besides money?) I found this book inspiring and relaxing, not to mention spiritual. Highly recommended!







  • Stan Davis is author of the bestselling books BLUR (more than 250,000 copies sold), 2020 Vision (more than 100,000 copies sold), and Future Perfect (more than 100,000 copies sold)
  • Shows how bringing an artistic sensibility to business can improve business performance and increase personal work satisfaction
  • Includes detailed, practical advice for implementing the ideas in the book, as well as a wealth of real-world examples

The arts are important to many people in their personal lives, but they don't see any way of incorporating art into their work and business. In this groundbreaking book, visionary business authors Stan Davis and David McIntosh argue that not only is this possible, but that applying an artistic sensibility to business will actually improve business performance.

Traditionally, business focuses only on the economic flow of inputs (resources, raw materials), outputs (products and services) and processes that help get you from one to the other (research and development, production, distribution). Davis and McIntosh show that there's an artistic flow that operates the same way, but with different particulars. Inputs here include things like emotion, imagination and intuition; and outputs include things like beauty, meaning, excitement and enjoyment. To bridge these aesthetic inputs and outputs, the authors show how to apply creative processes from the arts to business, and how to connect with customers the way great performers connect with audiences.

Through real-world examples and practical advice, The Art of Business shows how applying this concept of artistic flow enables you to come up with more creative solutions to problems, develop better new products, and provide your customers with the kinds of emotionally and aesthetically satisfying experiences they've come to expect in this high contact, mulimedia age. It gives you an additional--rather than alternative--approach to the established economic model of how things get done. And it will make your own work experience infinitely more satisfying.