Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare - fortunately.
Bernard ArnaultRead
When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Management requires an appreciation of creativity to foster collaboration with artists.
This quote emphasizes the importance of understanding both management and artistic sensibility in a leadership role. It suggests that effective management is not just about overseeing processes but also about engaging with creative individuals and nurturing an environment where both sides can communicate and collaborate effectively.
Themes
ManagementCreativityArtisticLeadershipCollaboration
In practice
Example use cases
In a company meeting, one could say this quote to emphasize the need for creative collaboration during project planning.
More from Bernard Arnault
All quotes βIt is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.
Bernard ArnaultRead
I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.
Bernard ArnaultRead
What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don't do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.
Bernard ArnaultRead
It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.
Bernard ArnaultRead
Similar quotes
The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.
W. Edwards DemingRead
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. KennedyRead
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao ZedongRead
You can't be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can't serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can't step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.
Bill CourtneyRead
Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.
Robin SharmaRead
The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Thomas GrayRead