Can you dig it?

"I've got this recording of Charlie Parker, you've got to hear it, I mean seriously once you hear this, you will feel this man..."

"Ok, but wait until tomorrow, I have this bootleg of Stan Getz that will make you cry it is so good.."

"I can hardly wait, I love how that man's sound it so full, so rich.."

This was the discussion I overheard on the subway last night. This was a discussion between two 15 year old guys that currently attend my former high school. These are students in the Claude Watson School for the Arts.

What an amazing coincidence that yesterday I was beefing up our corporate library and bought an article from Harvard Business School Press entitled Managers and Leaders: Are they Different. The reason I bought it was the tag line:

Business Leaders have much more in common

with artists than they do with managers.

So go back and analyze the conversation and you find key words that should be mandatory in every business: "feel" "cry it is so good" and "love"...

What are you doing at Schulich or Rotman when you should be at OCAD or Julliard.

Organizations of today need passion, emotion, and energy. They need creativity, artistry, and zeal. Too many organizations are fat with 'managers' ... hire a starving artist.

Tom Peters is right: MFA is the new MBA.

Ya dig?