Work Environments of the Future
Stand if you’re a practicing artist...if you were once a practicing artist
...if you have ever been moved by a work of art
This is a presentation about work environments, which is really conversation
about the way we work. It’s really a discussion about working as an artist.
Prototype and test. Solve problems.
ARIANA JACOB
ART & SOCIAL PRACTICE
What do artists do?Observe their environment and create work
that responds to it.Develop new ideas.
Put themselves into their work.Unabashedly engage intuition.
Collaborate.Prototype and test. Solve problems.
Market! Do business!
Must administrators be relegated to the role of logistics, producer, enabler, business
person?You are that artist!
As individuals.Expect to have good ideas.Make art on your own time.
Collaborate with colleagues and partners in different sectors.Be in the world.
Gently challenge your manager.Don’t worry about getting credit for your ideas. If they’re good your manager will
come back to the source.
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As managers.Hire good people and trust them.In office? Out? Let them choose.Create space for ideas and tests.
Take field trips. Take lunch breaks.Be vulnerable. Be passionate.
Let our staff be unique individuals.Create a culture of experimentation,
collaboration, creative feedback.
“Trusting others doesn’t mean that they won’t make mistakes. It means that if they do (or if you do), you trust they will act to help solve it….Leaders must demonstrate
their trustworthiness, over time, through their actions—and the best way to do that is by responding well to failure.”—Ed Catmull,
founder of Pixar
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