Shame on this innovation blog for not profiling Cirque much earlier. But I could not ignore long after a Twitter exchange yesterday with Tom Peters (“Mr. Excellence”) in which he said “Cirque management excellence almost equals performance excellence. (Talent recruitment-development equal to GE.)”
There is much to learn – since much has been written about Cirque.
There is Lyn Heward’s book “The Spark” – she was President and COO of Cirque du Soleil’s Creative Content Division
There are case studies –recent ones at Financial Times and Arik Hanson; longer, more dated one ones from ICMR (2007), Harvard Business Review (2002) and in Blue Ocean Strategy the best seller by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.
Of course, the best way to learn is to go see one of their shows in person.
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