Picture this: Business gets artistic in Montreal
Artists and business leaders used to be widely perceived as polar opposites.
In today's world, however, the corporate managers most likely to prosper are those who conduct themselves more like artists, innovating and responding quickly to stimulus.
That's the contention of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ professor Nancy Adler who, in addition to teaching at the Desautels Faculty of Management, is an accomplished painter whose first local solo show will open to the public next month at Galerie MX on Viger St. W.
The interactive exhibit, titled Reality in Translation, Going Beyond the Dehydrated Language of Management, combines words and paintings and includes this quote from business guru Warren Buffett: "I am not a businessman, I am an artist."
To Adler, he's both.
"His canvas is the economy," she said.
"He has a fabulous eye for what should and will work. He's helped make a whole lot of businesses work a lot better, and he does it with his own vision, not somebody else's formula."
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