Entrepreneurship: Hating to Do What You Love (And Loving It)

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Entrepreneurship is the direct monetization of one’s skill, knowledge, and/or labor to increase their net worth, network, skillset, or adjacent asset portfolio.

The Scope of Entrepreneurship

When I speak of entrepreneurship here, I do want to speak of entrepreneurship in general, but I am most interested in innovating in the space that The University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School calls “Artistic Enterprise.” ¹

This is all fertile ground for research, but also something we already knew. The marketplace is currently correcting for the underpayment of artists and the “starving artist” cliche is being eradicated by the tendency among artists to competently participate in tech-saturated marketing as natives.

I am interested not only in the economic aspect of entrepreneurship and artistic enterprise, but the personal (and even spiritual) dimensions of choosing to incorporate this kind of endeavor into one’s lifestyle, business, and career goals.

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↑1	Also termed “Arts Entrepreneurship” — See Woong Jo Chang and Margaret Wyszomirski, “What is Arts Entrepreneurship? Tracking the Development of its Definition in Scholarly Journals,” Artivate (2015): 33-51). Identifying Soft Value A recent article in the Journal of Business Research analyzed on the artistic value generated in the metaLAB at Harvard study. The authors delineated the primary value drivers of artistic enterprise as: Entertainment. Producing and shaping joyful experiences that create a pleasant and energizing environment. Galvanizing. Evoking and catalyzing emotions and energy by captivating the consumers in experiences that enable them to feel passionate. Inspiration. Provoking insight and innovation by deploying and exploiting art forms and design methods in order to generate self-awareness and critical thinking. Reputation. Strengthening organizational imagery, branding, communications by leveraging arts- and design-based skills and initiatives to attract stakeholder attention and increase organizational profile. Environment. Shaping a workplace to increase the likelihood of a positive energetic atmosphere and catalyze the internalization of positive associations with the organization. Learning and development. Inducing experiential learning that nurtures soft skills. Investment. Creating and incorporating intangible values into products, services, and ancillary organizational infrastructure through arts and design. Networking. Creating relational capital by identifying commonality between leaders and followers, employers and employees, operants and stake/shareholders. Transformation. Activating new consciousness that drives employees and affects overall organizational ability to undertake renovation, resulting in a convergence between development and organizational infrastructural renewal. ((Luca Simeone, Giustina Secundo, and Giovanni Schiuma, “Arts and design as translational mechanisms for academic entrepreneurship: The metaLAB at Harvard case study,” Journal of Business Research (2018): 434-443.

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