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Business: Art or Science? with Katie Thomas

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Business: Art or Science? with Katie Thomas

Sam Panetta asks the amazing Katie Thomas of Focus Finance whether business is more art than science.

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Guest: Katie Thomas (Focus Finance) Host: Sam Panetta Topic: Strategy + Thinking

Is business more art than science? For Katie, it’s creativity and art, with enough craft underneath to back it up.

1) More art than science

Asked whether business is more art than science, Katie leans to art. She feels that for the neurodivergent community especially, it’s all creativity and art.

  • Business is creative work.

2) Craft still matters

There’s definitely a level of knowing your craft. There are technical questions in there, and they matter.

  • Know your craft.
  • The technical side is the baseline.

3) What she’s really gauging

When Katie asks those technical questions, she’s really gauging how people respond to them: their resilience and their tenacity.

  • How people respond.
  • Resilience.
  • Tenacity.

The biggest lesson from Katie Thomas

The technical side is the baseline. What really sets people apart is how they respond under pressure, and the resilience and tenacity they bring.