Product Description

This is about social innovation and organisational transformation through the Arts. It presents live artists working in business settings as catalysts for change. The book primarily proposes two approaches for Arts-in-Business: the Arts applied as an instrument for teambuilding, communication training, leadership development, problem-solving and innovation; and the Arts integrated as a strategic process of organisational transformation. The message of the book is not to promote a new magical instrument, a new 'quick fix' for business. It is an attempt to show the great potential of 'Artful Creation'; and at the same time point out that the birth of a new paradigm offers promising prospects for the future of business and society. The book offers ground-breaking ideas, new methods, inspiration and concrete recommendations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #423018 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 213 pages

About the Author
Lotte Darsoe has a B.A. and an M.A. in Psychology from the University of Copenhagen and an industrial Ph.D. in Innovation from the Institute of Management, Philosophy and Politics, Copenhagen Business School in cooperation with Novo Nordisk A/S.

Lotte Darsoe is researcher, consultant, lecturer and author. Her main areas of interest are creativity and innovation as well as Arts-in-Business.
At the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2004 she moderated the workshop "If an Artist ran your business" and participated as a panellist and discussion leader in the session "Creativity as Comparative Advantage".

Customer Reviews

the Arts In Business Bible
Having used arts methods in corporate training for the past 10 years and advised both businesses and artists in this area, this is the best and only comprehensive history and description of a burgeoning area of learning and organisational change. Darso is extremely readable and makes good use of case studies. This and her sound grasp of learning theory gives the would be arts-based trainer all the arguments they'll need to convince an HR professional to work with them and for that HR professional to convince the finance manager! The book is particularly inspiring in that it looks not only at the arts as a tool (team building etcetera) but as a strategy for long term strategic change within organisations.

Readable, thorough, inspirational, useful. Buy it.