Artful making
by Robert D. Austin, Robert Austin, Lee Devin · first published 2003
100% recommend
Artful Making offers the first proven, research-based framework for engineering ingenuity and innovation. This book is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Harvard Business School professor Robert Austin and leading theatre director and playwright Lee Devin. Together, they demonstrate striking structural similarities between theatre artistry and production and today's business projects--and show how collaborative artists have mastered the art of delivering innovation "on cue," on immovable deadlines and budgets. These methods are neither mysterious nor flaky: they are rigorous, pre
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…way to work. A cross-functional team sitting together and focused on outcomes can be much more organic than that. Think of the writer's room for a show, for example. That can sound weird, but Devin's "Artful Making" does a good job explaining the parallels between knowledge work and how theater/TV/movie people work.
on “Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote” ↗These books might be of interest. https://g.co/kgs/9Ksdpv Austin, Rob, Lee Devin, Artful Making, What Managers Need to Know about how Artists Work, Upper Saddle River 2003. https://g.co/kgs/TYaoQs Bilton, Chris, Managment and Creativity. From Creative Industries to Creative Management, Malden u.…
on “Managerial Aesthetics, or Documenta Fifteen” ↗If you're looking for other models, I recommend reading Artful Making: https://www.amazon.com/Artful-Making-Managers-About-Artists/... For me it was a nice contrast to the "industrial age corporation" and "widget factory" models that are in common use.
on “You're Barely Managing” ↗Read Artful Making :)
on “Ask HN: What do you do when you can't sleep...” ↗