In a course that took me back to my undergrad days, I
quickly realized that managing and artist is not much different than managing a
product. In essence an artist is also in many ways a product; at least in the
form of the work they produce. When managing any profitable entity, one must
not only set goals and objectives to guide that product or artist properly, one
most definitely should have a plan for how they will accomplish those goals.
With that said, a key skill one must possess is strategy development. Having
the ability to project and foresee certain obstacles and setbacks can make the
difference form having a successful product/artist or one that fails to reach
its potential. Personally, my planning and tasking skills have been put to work
since the days of owning my own franchise. We had many seasonal products that
needed planned managing in order to be implemented into the market
successfully. With the years of experience, I have seen how managing products
correctly benefits a business. If the same due diligence is apply towards an
artist I am confident in my management skills to get that job done effectively.
