Shaping Business Minds Through Art - The Artian Podcast

S1E1. Nir Hindi. Art Mindset in Business.

May 14, 2020 The Artian hosted by Nir Hindi Season 1 Episode 1
Shaping Business Minds Through Art - The Artian Podcast
S1E1. Nir Hindi. Art Mindset in Business.
Show Notes Transcript

There are ways to develop our capabilities, gain new ones, and build strong competencies for the 21st-century work environment. Art is one of these ways. In our first episode, Nir Hindi shares his personal story and explains why understanding art can help our organizations so they can become more innovative, creative, and yes, human.

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science, social studies. You stream of science, math, science,

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technology, engineering things is what we're being told to study. If we want to be successful in life. Often lt's left behind and most likely, the last time you took in Altas was in fourth or fifth grade. But we grow up creating her if you close your eyes and think about your childhood. Often you were called how you used to paint, sing, dance, build stuff. And when we look at our own Children, we admire their creativity and imagination.

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So

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what happened on the way to adul sins that we lost our artistic passion? Invocation our creative spark for many years? I try to understand it. One of the lessons I learned is that we live in a culture that is toxic to art, make alot MONUC's tyrants starving, depressive, irresponsible, selfish, crazy, out of reality. And generally people who just want to be left room thes are just some off the stroll types we have about artists with this image in mind. No wonder the average family encourages their Children if their own to think off the artist, Hope is, is we can funds activities, activities that are not important activities that don't contribute to your success in life. His adults who left out behind way come into the workplace, especially in the business fear. And we accept the fact that out doesn't play a part in the environment Way are already shaped to think that art and business cannot go together. There are different worlds, cultures, opposites. I know how it feels. I was thought the same. I was given the same message you cannot have out in your professional life out and entrepreneurship out in business. They have nothing but nothing in common. However, I had these burning inside passion and love deep love for the art. So it pushed me to take an elective in art history. While I was starting my bachelor in economics and Web technologies, Thes selective opened my appetite to learn more about out. After I graduated, I started my own companies, and in my day today I ran my own business, says as an entrepreneur in inside, but slowly in my

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free time, I started to build relationship without ist our conversations and interactions their ideas in ways of thinking. It triggered me to research how art influences the world of business, the world of entrepreneurship in the world of innovation. In my journey, I gained many insights, and that led me to start a new venture

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near indie fondle or they the Rdn Welcome to Mexico and welcome to a Financiero Bloomberg near Tell us what is the rt on? And how did you come up with this idea? I define It is a

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young trans disciplinary training company that committed to nurturing an artistic mindset in business. A company that draws from the world about to drive originality and foster creativity in the business for this venture has given me the opportunity to travel to more than 30 different countries to visit more than 60 different cities,

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often more than once. My trips and encounters with people from around the world taught me another valuable lesson. If we want to bring back out to the business for, we need to understand art better. We need to understand its value. We need to reveal the unique connections, and mostly we need to get to know the artist and the way they think that's my intention for these books. If you want to learn why aren't is essential to your success in business if you wish to learn why artists are innovators of technologies. Oh, how to prepare yourself better for

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a fast changing world. Then I welcome you to join near Hindi, found off the idea to the first episode off the books.

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It was in October 2018 and I just finished my opening keynote that a financial technologies conference in the US I was speaking about the role of art in innovation in front of a group of mainly men. They were dressed in suits and ties. They came from banking, credit card companies and other financial institutions precisely as you imagine them. When I say financial professionals, I was heading to the speaker's room when people stopped me to share their thoughts. But it was one man, probably in his fifties, was really honest and direct with me. At keynote in a finance conference, he said, I thought, This is a rubbish, such a waste of time. I was about to leave, he told me. Luckily for me, the guy who sat next to him and participated in the training we deliver the day before convinced him to stay. You surprised me. Continue. I saw it all in the world of finance, but your keynote reveal new avenues that I never thought off. You change my perception on our and I felt I must tell you this. I get this skepticism and this belief quite often. After all, for years we have been told to separate out from innovation out from business or out from technology. These are different worlds, different languages with different motivations, isn't it? We're going to talk a lot about. So I thought it would be wise to discuss what art is and how I perceive it personally, and I want you to think about it for a moment. What is out for you

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painting dance movies, the other a sculpture.

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Music cinema? Did you think about paintings? Sculptures? Did you think about dance songs, theatre play? Oh, maybe a movie. Did you think about beauty or aesthetics? If yes, you are not alone. These are the common answers I hear. When I asked what out is, I wanted to put all of us on the same page, so I went to the dictionary to check What is the definition for art in the medium? Webster Dictionary says. And I quote the conscious use off skill and creative imagination, especially in the production of aesthetic objects. We tend to focus on the latter. We think that art is the static object, the painting, the song, the book, the sculpture. But we need to start focusing on the former. But and I quote again, they use off skill and creative imagination. What we see

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on the wall or holding in our

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hands. This aesthetic object is just a representation off thinking process. And this is what I discovered in my journey.

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I discovered that out is not an object. Out is a mindset. It is a way of thinking, a form off operating in the world. I want to offer a metaphor that might explain artistic object and

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artistic minds. I want you to think about the tree. When we look at the tree, we might be impressed by its beauty. Its height. It's Kahlo, its leaves and branches. We look at external attributes off the tree, but every tree has roots roots that go deep into the ground and support its needs. They keep it alive and infuse life into it. These routes we don't see often we don't think about them or take them into consideration. The roots make the branches and leave possible? No, the other way around. This is how I see out the roots are the minds. It the leaves and branches are the aesthetic object. If you think this metaphor sounds deep or maybe taken from some Eastern philosophy from doesn't have any connection to business, I want you to think about innovation. All the innovation tools are known, and many companies are using them and trying. They're really trying to achieve breakthroughs, but still many are struggling. If all the tools are known, how come companies are still struggling? I want to offer you a question to think about. Maybe, just maybe, it is not about the tools. Only

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thing is why I decided to start this podcast. I want to reveal to you this artistic mindset, this unique mentality I want to share with the world what I have learned from artists I want to give out. It's the space to share their thoughts about innovation, technology or just our culture. I'm hoping that together you, our listeners, our speakers and myself can bring back art into business. How exactly that is what you will learn from our guest doing our podcast. We will interview artists, entrepreneurs or business professionals that all have one thing in common relationship to our. Whether they practice are inspired by out whether they working without trained, without out

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is there influencing their day today, the way they think and operate, we will hear what they're all about is

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the more important experiences I have had had to do with art, like those things that have impacted me in a way that would make me want to do something about things have had to do with art. So I think art has that capacity off like, um, heating you somewhere. And

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we will discuss. But the whole of the artist is

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the roll off artists is first of all to ask questions and to raise awareness and to make people think,

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and you will get ideas what you can do in order to develop this artistic mindset.

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My most important, too, is the world in Hebrew. It's culturally and for me, the most important remark I can put on text when I get it. My first reaction is, Do you needed so then you underlying ascendance and you asked the student, Do you need it? And then something changed. Do you understand that? Not everything that you write down, you really need it. And you start to understand why you need certain things and what you don't need something things

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we need to realize. The dis out mindset also involved unique ideas, techniques, methods, skills, artistic, know how that artists have. All of this aspect of the arts could be used to define and create new and original models in the business world. However, it also requires that we in the business world move from the traditional out business relations such as co Boyd collections, sponsorship, engagement or just involvement of artists in the marketing campaigns. All these traditional out business relations are great, but out can give us much more. We need to realize that out should have an equal seat at the table of decision makers in the business world. In my personal research, slowly, I discovered

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more and more

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connections between famous entrepreneurs and business leaders and the arts. I can't stress how excited I was when I heard Marissa Mayer, the

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woman who oversaw the design of the Google pages we know

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it today, said that

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engineering and art aren't all that different.

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Art and engineering are different. You're listening to Steve Blank, a famous venture capitalist entrepreneurs and the men that he's theories that the cough, the lean startup probably the most popular method for building the clergy startups today stated that entrepreneurship is not a job. It is an hour,

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I think, founders particularly should understand that even though they might be engineers for MBA, is there not counters? Are artists artists in the true sense of the word artists like Michelangelo or Picasso? Beethoven?

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Or when I learned that Paul Graham, the co founder of Y Combinator, probably the number one start up accelerator in the world today studied painting and even published a book that carries the name hackers and painters, there are many more examples off successful business leaders who are connected to our some we will discuss in future episodes off this podcast. What I learned from these individuals is that they're well rounded people, not specialists. They collect disciplines in their private life, often in

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the company's they build. They often succeed because off, not in spite off their interest in outs and other disciplines. We need more business professionals who know that imagination is as crucial is execution. That lateral thinking is as essential as logical. That emotions are s relevant as processes. That intuition is as important as intellect in the 21st century. Business life. This is not an

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ideal. It is a necessity. Business leaders who think the tools make innovations are wrong. People make innovation. It is their imagination that supply

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what our co poet

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workshops couldn't. Therefore, the question is how we can attract and develop more well rounded business professionals, especially from the young generations who are the future of our organizations, I would claim out is a way. But his business leaders, we need to understand better the value of our we need to integrate it into the company's DNA and more importantly, let the young generation know that it exists. Is the following story suggest? On February 20 I just finished a lecture at a Iberoamerica University in Mexico, one of Mexico's leading private universities. I was speaking in front of a group of students in their early twenties. It was my first lecture for the day, and I knew I had one more activity coming up in just two hours. So it was rushing to leave when I was about to leave a young student Philly base, Ning came to me to tell me how we felt after our conversation.

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Mr. Intifinance, since I started studying, I thought about my career options in the beginning, and I always thought that I was doomed. Toe a job in banking or investment banking or corporate finance. And yet China find new ways, or look for alternatives to the limited options that finance or other business related jobs offer me. And this speech gave me a little bit off a breath of fresh air in a bit of hope that there is still a room for art in the world of business and finance

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doomed, limited. Philip is expression in words, depressed me. Many young did attend our talks, and trainings feel the same. They feel the business environment is limited, uninspiring, restricting, damaging. Their future bosses don't value them, and their ideas don't understand why out is essential. They say they value creativity but avoiding it at all cost. So no wonder people like Phillipe feel they are doomed. Think about yourself. How do you feel about the business environment would you like to work in one like that? Do you want to get to work in such an environment? I would assume no. Sadly, Philippe is not the only one. Since I found that out in and started traveling the world, I got emails, messages and feedback from people who feel the same from every age or profession. It is not only the young generation, it is also the adults. People who feel the business environment is that for, and they want to make a change. They want their environments to be more creative, inspiring full feeling. And you know what? The success of an organization is increasingly based on satisfied, flexible and resilient employees, employees like Phillipe and others who need to feel engaged, inspired, independent and fulfilled at work. But Filippi

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gave me hope is well, because the young generation understand it out can help if you think that really pays the minority. What I say is just new age rubbish or some naive thoughts. You might be surprised to learn the research studies actually suggest the same young generation associate out in the workplace is something positive that helps to drive the organization forward. 64% of global millennials, considering themselves to be creative in their success. Als gen z see out and creativity in a more utilitarian way.

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For them, it is a must

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dio I think I'm trying to bring back the concept of a Renaissance man with varying degrees of success. I'm in a writer's room for a Netflix show, an actor, but I do do social media stuff like for fun. I work at a hotel in West Hollywood. I am an actress slash model. What

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surprised me is that among Gen Z

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Group three in four individuals, almost 80% have an offline artistic vocation. They draw, illustrate or play music. Now, possibly more than ever, there appears to be a motivation for the young generation to bring their soft skills toe work skills such as creativity, communication and empathy. Well, traditionally, the soft skills were no taking seriously. In reality, these capabilities are critical to delivering business value. More and more employers see the value of soft skills. The Wall Street Journal found that almost 90% of executives said soft skills were equally important or more important than technical skins. Yet the same number said they have a difficult time finding employees with those off skins. What is interesting is that even though many employers values off skill, they still continue to overemphasize the traditional

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ones, and they overemphasize it as a safe way toe. Future proof our workforce when in reality even these traditional skills are not immune to automation. Now do these employers provide opportunities

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for us to demonstrate and develop these skills? Only 24% of millennials say their organization actually offers opportunities for developing decade activity. For example. In this scenario, our organization would also need to consider not only how to attract top talent but also rethink how they offer opportunities for us to learn and develop inside the workplace. Business leaders should realize that soft skills defined

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the out three outs. Diversity, critical thinking, communication, inspiration, inventiveness And, more importantly, imagination and creativity can help an organization in attracting and developing talent. Whether you are an employee or an employer, you already see that the value off a human centric business is increasing. The human capabilities, such

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as curiosity, empathy, flexibilities are not the ones you will learn in business schools. And if you think soft skills are not for you, take into consideration that by the end of this decade, almost 63% of jobs will be soft skins intensive. All these data suggests there is no better time than now bring back out into business from all my conversations without ist the project they run, especially the ones that work with technology, the research studies and science behind the value about and

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most significantly, the responses off people showed me that out. Does

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matter. What started is a one small keynote turned into this

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near Hindi near Yemen. You

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more and more business leaders and managers understand it. In today's economic environment, the answer to new business challenges lies at the conversions and intersections of disciplines. Listeners were interested only in the data, and measurement results off involving art in business might be disappointed, because only in the last few years and most scientific approach has been taken, However, every manager knows that an organization is a living organism with many factors that can influence it external as well as internal. So out cannot be the only indicator we expect to change. The

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whole business does out mindset work for the company's I work with Oh, for all my attendees. Honestly, I don't know yet. I get a lot of emails

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and feedback. The tea stocks and training open their eyes that you change their minds did. Now they started to act.

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More importantly, I started to discover how many artistic individuals we have in the business world. It is just a team now. They didn't feel it is valued. I hope you will join

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me on this journey to discover the autistic mind set in our future episodes, you will meet a science fiction writer who shares his tips. How to escape the present. A programmer who left Microsoft Innovation Lab to create emotional algorithms. An entrepreneur I po two companies but left it all to start as a photographer, 22 years old musician who works with Lego to develop Lego for the visually impaired and many, many others.

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In one sentence, you will find it exciting. You will find it different with each guest. You will learn more about out about the way that it is. Think and what you can do to develop your artistic minds way will talk about skins. Ways of thinking. Oh, interesting ideas. I hope that this future conversations

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will help you shape a different point of view off the world and discover new possibilities in opportunity. So I hope I will see you back here for the second episode off the Indian podcast with me near anything.