A couple of years ago Rob Austin and Lee Devin wrote Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work. The title kinda speaks for itself.
I haven’t read it yet, but based on this (free sample cutter article) PLANNING TO GET LUCKY about the same subject, I’m about to place an order.
At first glance, a modern regional theater seems about as far from a taut business atmosphere as we can get: dependent on the mystery of talent, at the mercy of temperament, dominated by the outrageous behavior of geniuses. It's a venue with few borders and little decorum. And yet, these theaters do a thing that seems amazing to business managers: they sell a brand new product (usually five or six of them in a series) in advance (a season's subscription); use the money to make the product; discover during the making process what exactly the product is going to be (a production of Born Yesterday, but at the start, there's no telling what it will look and sound like); and deliver this product on time and within budget, again and again.
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Take a look at the entire freebie sample of the cutter journal while you’re there.
