Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You tell them to try another company.
As much as you liked their style and their music, putting your money behind
this group seems too risky at this point. You decide to pass.
Weeks go by and you don't give this matter any more thought. Then
one day you're reading the local news online and see this group's
picture.
They'd been playing in a local park when a photographer happened by
and took their picture. You decide to try to get in touch with
them.
After a few days of phone tag, you finally get through to the group's
leader. You find that yours is one of three offers from managers they've
received this week. They've already signed on with one of your competitors!
"Sometimes you have to go with your instinct and take a chance on an unknown,"
says Martin Mitchell.
Arts managers must have excellent decision-making skills, says Harold Norris.
He is an arts manager. That's because they constantly face important
decisions that could impact the reputation of the artists they represent,
as well as their bottom line.
"Is this enough money, or is this important enough to their career?" says
Norris. "All those sorts of decisions have to be made fairly quickly, and
you have to be able to legitimize those decisions."