February 28, 2006
Dichotomies impose a false and sharp (knife-edge discrimination) polarisation on the world and allow no middle ground or spectrum … It becomes impossible to step across the boundary without at once being seen as directly in the enemy camp. Click title for more
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (1) | Filed under: de Bono Says, Creative Thinking, ThinkingCreative solutions
Ever get stuck for a creative solution to a problem? What you’ve got is a creative block. To remove it, try the Creative Block, a little box from Space For Ideas. Click title for more.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: Bob's Bullet Points, Lateral thinking, Creative ThinkingCork Street Galleries Spring Breakfast
16 Cork Street galleries will be happy to entertain you at a Spring Breakfast on Saturday 25 March. Eats, drinks and some splendid art from 10 to 12 pm.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: The Art GalleryLucy Jones correction
Correction to the recent blog about the marvellous Lucy Jones, whose new
exhibition of self-portraits (26 February to 26 March) is at Flowers East,
82 Kingsland Road, E2 8DP (0207 920 7777) – not at Flowers Central in Cork
Street.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: The Art GallerySelf Portraits, Lucy Jones and Rachel Heller
February 23, 2006
Few artists get through their careers without painting a self-portrait - more likely, many self-portraits. The model is always available, always free of fee, and as fascinating as any self-exploration. Yet very few painters and drawers return to the motif as often as the immortal Rembrandt, or make the self-portrait a major, distinctive element of their output - like one of my favourites, Lucy Jones, whose new exhibition at Flowers Central (26 February to 26 March) concentrates entirely on these wonderful self-studies. Click title to read more.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (1) | Filed under: The Art GalleryExecutive pay
February 17, 2006
Whether or not they manage their companies well, US executives are certainly highly skilled and magnificently successful at managing the relationship between their finances and those of the corporation. Between 1993 and 2003, according to a pair of economists, quoted in the New Yorker, the top five executives of 1,500 US firms were paid a total of $350 billion - averaging a billion for every four management teams. Click title to read more.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: Leadership and Management, Management, ManagersArt price boom
February 15, 2006
The art world is trying to digest the results of a bunch of sales in early February that must change the way the market approaches Post-War and Contemporary Art. Many of the prices fetched were stunning, and fully bear out my view that an old-fashioned art boom, fuelled by immense amounts of money in private hands, is well under way. When Christies can sell two Francis Bacons for £5 million a piece on the same day, my diagnosis can hardly be denied.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: The Art GalleryHow to manage in an unpredictable world
February 8, 2006
The FT is delivering free lectures online with leading business schools. This week’s lectures are How to Manage in an Unpredictable World from Professor Don Sull of London Business School.
Read in full Posted by Bob | Comments (0) | Filed under: ManagementMergers and acquisitions
February 3, 2006
Managers like to think of themselves as hard-boiled, fact-driven realists who (at least for internal consumption) tell it like it is. On the contrary, they are emotional, self-deluding dreamers who often part company with reality – and by a long distance. I’ve long treasured evidence of this uncomfortable truth – but even I was (slightly) surprised by a survey conducted by KPMG on the always thorny matter of mergers and acquisitions. Click title to read on.
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