(using the pages from the James C. Collins’s book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... And Others Don’t, 2004), dimensions variable
I interviewed 40 Lithuanian businesswomen, including a question about particular books that may have served as a source of inspiration in their field of business. Despite the fact that bookstores are crammed with titles offering business advice and 'secrets of success' the question acquired some ironic undertones, considering the recent situation – when successes are limited. Only one of the interviewees answered, Inga Cesnakiene who is director of the Nese Group and the winner of the "Lithuanian Businesswoman of the Year" (in 2007). The book she mentioned was James C. Collins' Good to 'Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... And Others Don‘t (2004). Consonant with the altered state of the economy and vagaries of good-advice I have found a way of presenting the book to the audience from a different perspective. My work Good to Great (2009) uses the pages of the book as material for making paper-ships. The handiwork required to make the work is a form of meditative and singular labour; and it's this process that I am more interested in than the finished objects. Nevertheless, the ships' object-hood also liberates the book from its informational character, signifying a respite from information-overload, as I suggest that the crisis has created apposite times for self-analysis.
Image: Good to Great, 2009, folded paper in a glass cube