Eavesdropping

In This Bloutcher
Where Art, Life and Leadership Collide

• Eavesdropping at MOMA
• Inspiration or Motivation
• Change

Eavesdropping at MOMA
"I don't get it."
"I can do THAT!"
"How did he DO that?"
"THAT'S art?"
"It reminds me of...garbled."
Henry James was once asked how can you judge a work of art to be successful.
He said there are three criteria:

• What was the artist's aim?
• Did he meet his aim?
• Was it worth the effort? 

Even the great artists had their doubts.
Paul Cezanne lamented he had spent 40 years at his craft before realizing that painting was not sculpture.  This water color was painted in 1906 the year he died.

Henri Matisse bemoaned that he could not paint like others.

Wilhem de Kooning complained, "I work out of doubt."

How often do we focus on what we think we do not do well rather than on cultivating our own voice?

Inspiration or Motivation
Inspiration is the pull, the dream shaper, the imagined, the great recruiter, the internal sustainer.
Motivation is the push, the rah rah orator, the carrot vendor, the warrior, the heavy lifter.
Leaders inspire.

Change
The Arab Spring roils
Mother Nature frets
20 children rip a hole in the universe
The mirror reveals