The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co
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More and more, creative people are going to be expected to manage their own business, their own marketing, their own promotion. And I think just as equally, business people are going to find that their world is enhanced by being creative.
Rolf Potts • Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul: Rolf Potts — How to Find Soulful Success and The Dance Between Creativity and Business
When more than 30 percent of the population belongs to the creative class, as Richard Florida has suggested, creativity is not in short supply: it is abundant.3 What is in short supply, I’m afraid, are circles of forward-looking researchers whom firms involve in breakthrough projects because of their culture and vision, and because they have someth
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