Unlocking Success in 2024: The Upskilling Revolution for Creative Entrepreneurs
While AI stole the show in 2023, the dawn of the new year unveils a game-changing narrative — the spotlight on upskilling. 2024 is a time for arts leaders to arm themselves with fresh tools that push their work into bold new territory. New capacities – often borrowed across disciplines – allow ideas to move […]
Five Leadership Lessons from Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was a renowned American composer, conductor, pianist, and educator who led a remarkable life full of achievements, challenges, and inspirations. Here are five leadership lessons from his complex life — Be curious: Bernstein had a lifelong thirst for learning. He crossed the established musical boundaries of his time to explore and connect diverse genres […]
3 Simple Ways to Enhance Creative Teams
Starting a new creative venture can feel pretty scary, right? Your team can be a secret weapon against all the uncertainty. So, how do you make your team super strong, successful, and collaborative? Let’s break it down in three easy ways! 1. Cross-Functional Projects Diversity is a superpower. Different ideas and perspectives are needed to […]
Growing Digital Communities in a Decentralized World
We are spending more and more of our lives online. According to the latest available data, the average person spends about 6:50 hours per day on screens connected to the Internet outside work requirements. Gen Z alone spends over 9 hours per day. While the mix of a person’s digital footprint is a blend of […]
Four Principles of Effective Brands
Do you know the difference between a logo and a brand? This is similar to knowing the difference between a strategy and a tactic. While a tactic is an actionable resource, a tiny step in a direction, a strategy represents the whole journey an enterprise wishes to unfold. In this way, the logo is a […]
Lullaby Project: A Song to Live By
How can music help new parents and expecting families? Meet Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project. A longstanding partner to The Global Leaders Institute, four 2024 GLI fellows are applying core course frameworks to explore The Lullaby Project — collectively developing a first-hand Case Study Assignment as a component of their MBA learning journey. This project is […]
Three Business Rules for the Arts
1. Focus on the customer. The customer is key to any business. They decide what products or services to use and can easily switch to alternatives. Successful companies understand this and strive to provide lasting value by solving their customers’ problems. Effective arts leaders adopt this approach by making clients, audiences, and beneficiaries the center […]
How business Case Studies help arts leaders?
What does leadership look like in rapidly evolving sectors? How do the right decisions get made when the context of every enterprise is unique? Where is perspective found for rising leaders in real-world endeavors beyond textbooks? For over 100 years, the Business Case Study method has helped answer these questions as the backbone of […]
Music winning the poverty fight in rural Canada
The Global Leaders Institute is building on a partnership with Sistema New Brunswick, Canada’s flagship social music education initiative that has benefited children and families province-wide for 14 years. Throughout the coming months, a team of 2024 GLI Fellows will apply tools and frameworks from the Arts MBA classroom to gain insights from this dynamic […]
Overcoming Immunity to Change: A mindset for the arts
Immunity to Change is a leadership framework based on the understanding that the mind, like the body, has an Immune System that regulates to protect us from the stresses of environmental shifts. In essence, the human mind not only filters information but is also the means for processing experiences and creating meaning. Like the Immune […]