Category Archives: Personal infrastructure

Entrepreneurship Beyond “Market?”

Posted on December 15, 2016 by lindaessig

Matthew Clinton Sekellik deserves a more considered response to his recent Howlround post, “Against Entrepreneurship,” than I provided in a brief (and admittedly slapdash) comment on it. Because I get it, I really do. “Entrepreneurship” seems in many contexts to … Continue reading →

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What Can We Do? Part 3

Posted on November 12, 2016 by lindaessig

This is the third in a four part series that I am writing in response to last Tuesday’s election results because for me, writing is way of thinking, knowing, and understanding. In the first post, I tried to take a … Continue reading →

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What Can We Do? Part 2

Posted on November 11, 2016 by lindaessig

This is the second in a four (or more) part series. This particular post was born out of the feeling of extreme disorientation I felt sitting at my desk Wednesday morning. My Epistemological Existential Crisis For background, I note I … Continue reading →

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A Creative Enterprise Strategy Model

Posted on November 1, 2016 by lindaessig

I’m currently teaching a new course titled “Strategy: Opportunity Recognition in the Creative and Cultural Industries” as part of the Curb MA in Creative Enterprise and Cultural Leadership. My concept of strategy may be different than a business school conception … Continue reading →

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What Does it all Mean?

Posted on October 24, 2016 by lindaessig

Definitional problems still persist in the teaching and learning arts entrepreneurship. Each year, I ask students what “entrepreneurship” means to them and then, after a short lecture and reading material by Andrew Simonet, David Cutler, and Aaron Dworkin, ask: “What … Continue reading →

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Leadership Axioms from Jim Ed Norman

Posted on September 22, 2016 by lindaessig

What a treat! Our guest this week in “Leadership in the Creative and Cultural Industries” was Jim Ed Norman: musician, arranger, producer, former president of Warner Records Nashville and, after coming out of retirement three years ago, CEO of Curb … Continue reading →

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The Dark Side of Leadership

Posted on September 13, 2016 by lindaessig

I was talking recently about cultural leadership with a colleague, himself a cultural leader of tremendous insight and experience. He noted that people don’t really talk about the emotional challenges one faces as a leader and that few people (and … Continue reading →

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Creative Sector Success is Like an Iceberg

Posted on September 6, 2016 by lindaessig

Mari Andrew is a writer and illustrator living in Washington DC who posts a picture a day on Instagram. I’m not a big Instagram user (although I do have an account: @lindainphoenix) so it was via a different social media … Continue reading →

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Do What Loves

Posted on August 28, 2016 by lindaessig

The best thing I read this past week was a post on Medium by Umair Haque that asserts that suggesting people “do what they love” [a.k.a. “follow their passion”] is not sufficient. Instead, he offers these three pieces of advice: … Continue reading →

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Leading and Following

Posted on August 26, 2016 by lindaessig

My “Leadership in the Creative and Cultural Industries” course has met twice now and we are making progress toward understanding that leadership and management are not the same, that leadership can happen anywhere in an organization, and that authentic leadership … Continue reading →

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