Seeing Fresh Solutions for Business Situations from Art
Kiem 金 Andre Hsu
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I enjoy seeing works of art in different places, galleries.
Many people including my own family don’t understand why I can literally spend hours immersed in them and can spend quite considerable time observing intricate details of a nice painting. They just don’t get it. They don’t know what’s going on in my mind as I go into deep contemplation while doing that.
In short, I imagine, I simulate, I visualize.
I do that not just when observing art or a very nice architecture.
In breaking down a business situation into components and highlighting the parts and people who matter the most, I use my visualization faculty too.
A much more conventional approach would be to just approach a business situation in a typical business school case study style and just discuss, debate logically.
I do that too whether it's about purchase of asset, divestment, asset swaps, profit sharing arrangements and whether it's about equity, debt, or quasi-debt used as the tools.
But often, I also feel it, I feel the people, then I allow inspirations to flow too and test my feelings about them.
I try to feel the situations on hand, contexts to be handled.
Then I simulate a few possibilities and imagine how they can interact and whether it’s a sensible thing to propose to each party involved. I imagine how they may feel because humans decide using emotion, not just logic.
That’s where the art or feeling part comes in. It makes me more alert to subtleties in people, their stated and unstated hopes, motives which as much as possible I factor in even if not seen in writing or verbal communications.
It’s the same imaginative faculty that’s used when I can immerse very deeply into art, observing and enjoying the finer details, intricacies.
The qualities that make a remarkable painting, masterpieces are similar to what we can use to create masterstrokes in business problem solving and deal structuring, deal making and negotiations.
In short, feelings matter most. That qualitative calculation needs to be incorporated.
That’s how we can see a chair when most people only can see pieces of wood, as I once observed in an art gallery.
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1 年An artist can observe the invisible. Great post.
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1 年In short, feelings matter most. That qualitative calculation needs to be incorporated.” Thankyou Andre Hsu. I know I also love the creative and collective energy of all things qualitative. Interestingly my first career was in art and I pivoted to teach others to appreciate art history through a holistic lens. The value you bring to a often times heavy laden grouping of quantitative data driven decisions is priceless.
Andre Hsu Very interesting and fascinating analogies that you highlight here! Certainly few men in the deal making World ??pay enough attention to the emotional subtleties of deals which can prejudice a successful closing. So it’s super important to remain alert and cognisant of what’s going on “unsaid” especially as most men cannot express their feelings articulately, then it helps massively if you have a capacity to sense and interpret their actions - this is super insightful. Very thought provoking post ?????????? Thanks ??
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2 年All business are like the Art World. They are artificial markets. The elite galleries crown their contemporary masters. The artists' works' value goes up significantly. One now very famous contemporary artist said this to me: "Art business is like the restaurant business. People regularly buy your art because they believe in your face, in your story and in your potential. Of course, you have to be a master of your craft, but the gallerists name and your branding really makes an artists value skyrocket. The media is a great catapult as well. One feature story in the Architectual digest may attract attention to buyers and gallerists alike. My brother, Fabian von Spreckelsen, is a 3D sculpture and installation artist.
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2 年"In short, feelings matter most. That qualitative calculation needs to be incorporated." ????