Picking winners
Observer August 9th, 2007
Some food for thought for the business community in its ‘war for talent’ at an exhibition on gallerist Vollard presently at the Musee d’Orsay, Paris. Focusing on his promoted artists from the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries the exhibition includes many of the greatest painters of the early modern period, in a richly rewarding selection.
A champion of potential, actively encouraging and mentoring his charges, the bets Vollard placed on relative unknowns or shunned artists appear to have been made good with uncanny dependability. A lawyer by training he combined dealmaker skills with soft people skills to brilliant effect. And those soft skills as applied to artistic temperaments must be the hardest-to-master soft skills of all. For the corporate setting, think prima donna, high maintenance, diva, and so on.
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