In psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's definition of leadership, the personal is political. The best-selling author of Flow interviewed several dozen exemplary CEOs whose wisdom provides the radical job description of the book's premise: "Leaders must make it possible for employees to work with joy, to their heart?s content, while responding to the needs of society." Csikszentmihalyi leverages his definition of "flow" -the capacity for full engagement in an activity - to create a blueprint for a workplace in which bringing out the best in workers comes before products and profit. When leaders select and reward employees who find satisfaction at work, they can create an upwardly moral organization.
In this view, leadership is a privilege that requires checking ego in the coatroom and peering into the mirror to ask tough questions. For example, "How do I determine if something is right or wrong?" Or, "What is my business doing to benefit human well being?" He offers some inspiring stories from leaders who engage employees to go with the flow, including Body Shop CEO Anita Roddick, Patagonia crown prince Yvon Chouinard, and media mogul Ted Turner. Some of Csikszentmihalyi's advice will sound familiar. Yet he creates a compellingly fresh vision of good business in both a material and spiritual sense. Ultimately, the success of this book lies in its powerful, non-flaky ability to define corporate soul in terms of a company becoming a stakeholder in an entity larger than itself.

In this brilliantly witty satire - a bestseller in the UK - a prestigious British museum launches an ambitious new exhibit... which quickly becomes a seasonal nightmare.

Think that a day in the life of a London museum director is cold, quiet, and austere? Think again. Giles Waterfield brings a combination of intellectual comedy and knockabout farce to the subject in this story of one long day in a museum full of scandals, screw-ups ¨and more than a few scalawags.
At the beginning of The Hound in the Left-hand Corner, Auberon, the brilliant but troubled director of the Museum of British History, is preparing one midsummer's day for the opening of the most spectacular exhibition his museum has ever staged. The centerpiece is a painting of the intriguing Lady St. John strikingly attired as Puck, which hasn't been shown in London in a hundred years. As the day passes, the portrait arouses disquieting questions, jealousies, rivalries -- and more than a few strange affections -- in the minds of the museum staff. As guests and employees pour in, the tension rises -- and Auberon himself has the hilariously ridiculous task of keeping the peace, without losing his own sense of reality as well.

For everyone who loves the farce of David Lodge and Michael Frayn, or even the Antiques Roadshow, the fast-paced, hilarious satire of The Hound in the Left-hand Corner is sure to delight and entertain.

About the Author
Giles Waterfield has worked at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and as director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. He now writes, teaches, and curates exhibitions. His first novel, The Long Afternoon, published in England, won the McKitterick Prize in 2001.

n self-congratulatory tones of tolerance and open-mindedness, the Western gatekeepers of the contemporary art world-gallery owners and museum curators, patrons and promoters-take great pains to demonstrate their inclusive vision of world culture. They highlight the Latin American show mounted "a few years ago" or the African works featured in a recent exhibition of non-Western artists. Non-Western artists soon discover that this veneer of liberalism masks an array of unwritten, unspoken, and unseemly codes and quotas dictating the acquisition and exhibition of their works and the success of their careers. In past decades, cultural institutions and the critical establishment in the West resisted difference; today, they are obsessed with exoticism. Both attitudes reflect firmly entrenched prejudices that prescribe the rules of what Nigerian-born artist, curator, and scholar Olu Oguibe terms the "culture game."

In the celebrated, controversial essays gathered here, Oguibe exposes the disparities and inconsistencies of the reception and treatment afforded Western and non-Western artists; the obstacles that these contradictions create for non-Western and minority artists, especially those who live and practice in the Western metropolis; and the nature and peculiar concerns of contemporary non-Western art as it deals with the ramifications and residues of the colonial encounter as well as its own historical and cultural past. Ranging from the impact of the West's appetite for difference on global cultural relations and the existence of a digital Third World to the African redefinition of modernity, Oguibe's uncompromising and unapologetic criticism provides a uniquely global vision of contemporary art and culture.

Olu Oguibe is a visual artist, writer, scholar, and curator. He is associate professor of art and art history at the University of Connecticut.



Paperback: 204 pages

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (February 1, 2004)

Where To Seek Job Opportunities and Funding Sources For Your Work,
If you're an artist, you intuit it. Art is there within you. This book is for those who on some level know what they truly are -- either you are trying to learn how to do this artistic life better, or you are trying to decide whether or not to do it at all. How can you take this vague idea of being an artist and make it a reality? Get clear and make a plan.
How will this book help? By pointing you in some directions, showing you where to get information you may need. By giving you the experience of others who have gone before you who may have done something you can benefit from, and who have been gracious enough to pass it on. By helping you to see what kind of a plan you need. By helping you make a plan. Bottom line, as an artist you have an even greater need to make long-term plans than other folks. Income will likely come at irregular intervals. You'll have to save money whenever you can, get good credit, maintain a fuel-efficient vehicle, and find the way to do your art. Yet we all must budget for rent, food, telephone, transportation, clothing, health insurance, gas and electric - the stuff of day-to-day living.

Inside this book are practical suggestions and ideas to help you cope with artist's life including: Housing, Telephone, Home Office, Car, Health Insurance, Finances, The Internet, Legal Assistance, Grants, MFA Programs, Theatre Companies and Artist Retreats, Working Overseas, Putting Together Your Artist Portfolio.

Art That Pays will give you ideas and practical, concrete suggestions. If you are an artist and you have decided to pursue it, this thing you are embarked upon is noble. We hope to give you some encouragement because you can never have too much support. And we hope, perhaps, to make you smile at least once or twice, if not in amusement, at least in recognition of the absurdity, joy and wonder that is this life we have.



About the Author

Adele Slaughter has written for various publications including "USAToday.com", "Ms. Magazine" and "Written By".

In 2003 she was awarded a national journalism prize for her coverage of multiple sclerosis. In 1903 the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars named her a Distinguished Teacher.

She received her M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. Slaughter's first book of poems, "What The Body Remembers", was published by Story Line Press in 1994.
Jeff Kober has appeared extensively on stage, in films and on television. Most recently he was seen in "Defying Gravity" at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, California. Kober worked with John Ritter and Jenny Sullivan for several years helping to develop Jenny Sullivan's autobiographical play, "J for J".

His film credits include "A Man Apart with Vin Diesel", "Enough", Directed by Michael Apted, "Elmore Leonard's Gold Coast" and "The First Power". Kober was a regular on the series "China Beach", and has guest starred on many TV shows, most recently "ER" and "The Guardian". Kober was a student of the late Ed Kaye-Martin and is currently studing acting with Candace Silvers.


Paperback: 361 pages

Publisher: National Network for Artist Placement (Dec 2004)

This Australian content-based book provides anyone involved in event management with an introduction to the principles associated with planning, managing and staging festivals and special events. This book presents the study of festival and special event management, introducing readers to the concepts of festival and event planning, management, stage and logistic management, the importance of marketing and promotion, and event evaluation and reporting.

Paperback: 485 pages

Publisher: Five Senses; 2nd edition (February 2004)

The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly global world. George Yúdice explores critically how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource to be invested in, contested, and used for varied sociopolitical and economic ends. Through a dazzling series of illustrative studies, Yúdice challenges the Gramscian notion of cultural struggle for hegemony and develops instead an understanding of culture where cultural agency at every level is negotiated within globalized contexts dominated by the active management and administration of culture. He describes a world where "high" culture (such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain) is a mode of urban development, rituals and everyday aesthetic practices are mobilized to promote tourism and the heritage industries, and mass culture industries comprise significant portions of a number of countries gross national products.



Yúdice contends that a new international division of cultural labor has emerged, combining local difference with transnational administration and investment. This does not mean, he points out, that todays increasingly transnational cultureexemplified by the entertainment industries and the so-called global civil society of nongovernmental organizationsis necessarily homogenized. He demonstrates that national and regional differences are still functional, shaping the meaning of phenomena from pop songs to antiracist activism. Yúdice considers a range of sites where identity politics and cultural agency are negotiated in the face of powerful transnational forces. He analyzes appropriations of American funk music as well as a citizen action initiative in Rio de Janeiro to show how global notions such as cultural difference are deployed within specific social fields. He provides a political and cultural economy of a vast and increasingly influential art event inSite, a triennial festival extending from San Diego to Tijuana. He also reflects on Miami as one of a number of transnational "cultural corridors" and on the uses of culture in an unstable world where censorship and terrorist acts interrupt the usual channels of capitalist and artistic flows.


George Yúdice is Professor of American Studies and Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. He is the coauthor of Cultural Policy and coeditor of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture.

The complete guide to producing entertainment for every event Helpful strategies and tools for giving the client top-shelf thrills! From assessing the clients need for entertainment at an event to hiring the talent and coordinating the nuts-and-bolts production details, Event Entertainment and Production equips event planners with the tools they need to efficiently produce and manage the right entertainment for any event. Along with an insightful overview of how entertainment fits into an event, discussions cover how entertainment differs between association, corporate, and not-for-profit events. Event managers and professionals get an insiders look at the real-life events business from interviews with entertainers and event producers, as well as mini-case studies from the authors experiences. Complete with "what-to-do" checklists, this hands-on resource offers helpful guidelines on how to: Design, plan, and produce entertainment Work within a budget Limit risks associated with entertainment Work with performers and such production support areas as sound, lighting, and more The Wiley Event Management SeriesSeries Editor, Dr. Joe Goldblatt, CSEP The Wiley Event Management Series provides professionals with the essential knowledge and cutting-edge tools they need to excel in one of the most exciting and rapidly growing sectors of the hospitality and tourism industry. Written by recognized experts in the field, the volumes in the series cover the research, design, planning, coordination, and evaluation methods as well as specialized areas of event management.

Hardcover: 456 pages

Publisher: Wiley (December 12, 2003)

This title explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts, management and marketing. Art firms - as avant-garde enterprises and arts corporations - have existed for at least 200 years, using texts, images and other types of art to create corporate wealth. The book investigates how to apply the methods artists use in creating value to the methods more traditional managers use in running their businesses. Guillet de Monthoux offers a crash course in aesthetics from Kant to Gadamer, showing how aesthetic management and metaphysical marketing can create value. Using case studies of successful art managers from Richard Wagner to Robert Wilson, the author illustrates the creative role - so central to value-making in contemporary economies - performed by aesthetic play in art firms. Along the way, Guillet de Monthoux points out how responsible aesthetic management and marketing can eradicate the problems of banality and totality, the two capital sins of an art-based economy.


408 pages, Stanford University Press

Published: February 2004

A starter guide for fundraisers, based on one of DSC's most established and popular courses. It shows how to identify the right funding sources for your cause, think creatively and practically about your fundraising, and be informed and successful in your approach. The book is in the following parts: are you a registered charity? (and what to do about it, if not); where the money is (and why companies give so much less than people suppose); why should people give you money anyway?; can you just ask people personally to give you donations for your cause? (the best and simplest method); what to do if you can't just ask people for money; Trusts 1 - is this easy money? Yes, but...; Trusts 2: Treat them like human beings, not like bank managers; companies - grants and sponsorship; The National Lottery - an exception to most fundraising generalisations; why you have no "core costs" overheads to fund, just "charitable activities". Hundreds of fundraisers have contributed directly or indirectly to the collective wisdom contained within this guide. The author brings together this wisdom, combines it with his own decades of fundraising experience at all levels, and enlivens it with his no-nonsense, entertaining style. This book should be of interest to newcomers to fundraising, or those with experience of only one aspect of the art. It is aimed mainly at the medium-sized or smaller charity or group, but may be equally valuable for those seeking to fund projects within the largest organizations.


Paperback 86 pages (January 30, 2004)

Publisher: Directory of Social Change

ISBN: 1903991404

This user-friendly and up-to-date handbook takes new and professional artists through the basics of creating a successful business. Artists will learn how to couple their creativity with clever business sense to establish a lucrative art career.


Constance Smith has been working with fine artists for over 21 years, first as an art rep and then as a publisher of marketing books for fine artists. She periodically lectures around the country. She lives in Nevada City, California.


Paperback: 291 pages

Publisher: Five Senses (January 2004)

The book takes the reader through the various steps and processes needed to develop an effective business plan and to operate a subsequently successful company. The workbook features allow readers to take notes and to develop raw material needed to put together their individual plans. AE is written in easy to read, understandable terms that take the mystery out of the often arcane language of the usual textbook.


United Press Services, Inc.

Bloomingdale, Illinois, 2004

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is the world's largest institution devoted exclusively to leadership research and education. For more than three decades, CCL has studied and trained hundreds of thousands of executives and worked with them to create practical models, tools, and publications for the development of effective leaders and leadership. This second edition of The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development brings together the wealth of practical knowledge that CCL has gained from this experience. It explores the essence of leadership development, reveals how individuals can effectively enhance their leadership skills, and demonstrates what organizations can do to help build leaders and leadership capacity. The book also includes a companion CD-ROM that contains a library of classic CCL publications for practicing leaders.


Hardcover: 560 pages

Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 2 edition (October 31, 2003)

Offers innovative and practical lessons for business and workers. Chronicles the ongoing sea-change in people's choices and attitudes, and shows not only what's happening but also how it stems from a fundamental economic change.


Richard Florida is H. John Heinz III Professor of Regional Economic Development, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University. A columnist for Information Week (circ. 400,000), he gives fifty to one hundred invited lectures a year, to mostly business audiences. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


Paperback: 416 pages

Basic Books; Reprint edition, January 2004

Culture has changed from a focus on the high arts to an understanding of the creative industries. This book fills a gap in the market, which is crying out for relevant, easy to read material, that is nonetheless based on an understanding of culture and leisure and its importance as the 'third place' in society.


The original English edition has been published by the DEAKIN UNIVERSITY PRESS, January 1998, (0949823716)


Paperback: 318 pages

Publisher: Five Senses (December 2003)

As advertising genius Bernd Kreutz tells us, when Picasso first launched his marketing campaign to establish himself as a brand, "marketing" as we know it did not exist. Yet he recognized its potentials, and, by systematically exploiting his own talents, made a billionaire out of a poor painter--and made himself immortal. The Art of Branding traces the proto-typical career of Pablo Picasso as an exemplary illustration of the art of branding, the phenomena that has engaged the minds of corporate management more than any other. Marketing literature is full of theories and recommendations on such topics as brand potential, brand management, brand value, and brand mythology. Yet few publications address the crucial question of how brands are made. In marketing as in art, the art is not in talking about it but in making it. Picasso shows us how it can be done.


Spiral-bound: 48 pages

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers; Spiral edition (March 1, 2004)

ISBN: 3775791574

Both organizational patterns and management strategies have changed significantly in recent years, yet little in the library administration literature takes up new trends and strategies. Social, economic, political, and especially technological influences on the ways that libraries are staffed, organized, and financed are in flux. Effective Library Management is both a practical hands-on guide and an exceptionally well-researched examination of todays results-oriented library management strategies. Evans and Layzell Ward, two of todays most respected library management experts, look at how external forces as diverse as globalization, OCLCs recent marketing decisions, mergers of specialist software houses, new document delivery services, and the growth of electronic archives and virtual libraries affect libraries and how library managers can respond. The ways that all of this change influences communications and work patterns between library colleagues, long-and short-term planning, and organizational models are examined from various angles. New developments are considered both in the collaboration among and the competition between the public and private information delivery services. Other hot-topics treated include making career plans in an age of discontinuity, motivating staff in difficult economic times, and performing effective needs-analyses. An extensive list of additional reading and password-protected access to the books own continually updated Web site is also included.



Paperback: 347 pages

Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers (November 2003)

Introducing a clear path toward event excellence A comprehensive guide to essential competencies for event coordinators, Professional Event Coordination examines the full event planning process and provides the tools and strategies to effectively procure, organize, implement, and monitor all the products, services, and service providers that will bring an event to life. After establishing each layer of the anatomy of an event, this in-depth guide covers: Event design Project management techniques Site selection and development Infrastructure services Entertainment possibilities Food and beverage options Safety and security Inviting attendees In addition to dozens of checklists, tables, and figures, this complete guidebook is enhanced with On-Site Insights (real-world examples), Technology Tips, and Exercises in Professional Event Coordination (reinforcement exercises that help in preparation for the CSEP certification exam). A versatile tool that is effective for all types of events-for small functions with ten guests to major festivals with 10,000 attendees - Professional Event Coordination is a valuable book for every professional who works events, including event managers, caterers, event planners, and hotel and food and beverage managers.


Hardcover 496 pages (November 21, 2003)

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Illustrating actual building design solutions that have been created to improve accessibility for disabled patrons and performers, the 'Journey Sequence' outlines the best examples of design innovation produced in response to new and upcoming legislation.




A knowledge of how to design for the disabled can be crucial in winning contracts and having designs accepted. This book shows how the practical implications have already been successfully approached.



Covering the whole sequence from parking, to entry, and including details of facilities for the visually and hearing impaired users, advice is given on the methods designers should use in assessing the requirements of disabled people. This is not a publication giving theoretical prescription but rather an illustrated record of achievements in buildings of all sizes where proper access to the disabled has been created. It includes 14 case studies and examples that illustrate the diverse ways that accessibility has been incorporated into arts buildings throughout the UK. This includes Cinemas, Theatres, Concert Halls, Opera Houses, Museums and Libraries. The author team highlights specific design details that are particularly unique, to stimulate the reader and show that creating better accessibility for the disabled both demands and creates innovative design.



- Be informed about the latest design solutions for disabled access

- Case studies show best practice to inspire your designs

- Gain an insight into unique solutions used by designers to make their venues inclusive

Hardcover: 192 pages

Publisher: Architectural Press (December 3, 2003)

Meet the challenge of operating a successful art library!



The Twenty-First Century Art Librarian examines the unique challenges and vital administrative issues that are at the forefront of current art librarianship. Librarians working in a variety of settings (art, academics, architecture, visual resources, and museums) address professional change and technological challenges, including inadequate staffing and the need to wear multiple hats to cope with day-to-day responsibilities. The book focuses on common practices in the field as well as the individuals who work in art libraries and the collections they maintain.



Instead of the standard primer on art librarianship, this book is an insightful look at how art librarians are unique in terms of the clientele they serve, their subject knowledge, and the variety of environments in which they work. The Twenty-First Century Art Librarian examines pressing everyday issues, including operational management, staff recruitment and training, managing collections, public service and patrons, and developing a personal care plan.



The Twenty-First Century Art Librarian also addresses setting-specific topics, such as:



* developing staffing standards at all levels

* working solo in small art museum libraries

* integrating digitization into visual resource libraries

* handling special collections in architecture libraries

* how culture and mission distinguish academic art libraries from their museum counterparts

* and much more!



The Twenty-First Century Art Librarian provides library professionals and academics with a unique look at current trends in art, architecture, and visual resources librarianship.


# Paperback: 110 pages

# Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Nov 6 2003)

Cet ouvrage réunit l'ensemble des communications présentées au colloque que le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication a organisé, en collaboration avec la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (OFCE) et en partenariat avec le Musée du Louvre, en novembre 2002. Il est composé d'un volume imprimé et d'un cédérom inclus dans l'ouvrage. Le livre est organisé autour de trois thèmes : une présentation des principaux effets des mutations intervenues dans le domaine de l'école, de la famille, du travail ou de la sociabilité sur les rapports à la culture ; une confrontation entre le public de la culture imaginé par les artistes et les responsables politiques (celui du théâtre populaire, celui du festival d'Avignon...) et les publics réels tels que les révèlent les enquêtes de fréquentation ; enfin, une réflexion critique autour de la légitimité culturelle et de la pertinence actuelle des analyses de P. Bourdieu dans le domaine de la sociologie de la culture. Les textes contenus dans le cédérom parcourent l'ensemble des secteurs de la vie culturelle (bibliothèques, musées, cinéma, spectacle vivant, illustrant la diversité de la " question des publics " dans le domaine de l'art et de la culture. L'ensemble ainsi constitué marque sans conteste une étape sur le chemin qui a vu, dans les années 1960, la réalisation des premières enquêtes sur la fréquentation des équipements culturels et sur les pratiques culturelles, et fournit un cadre particulièrement riche pour repenser la question de la démocratisation. A ce titre, il devrait constituer un ouvrage de référence pour les milieux de la recherche et les étudiants des nombreuses formations culturelles mais aussi pour les professionnels de la culture (bibliothécaires, responsables d'établissements culturels, directeurs d'action culturelle dans les collectivités territoriales...)