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Originally composed of 20 street performers in 1984, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group completely reinvented circus arts and went on to become a world leader in live entertainment. Established in Montreal, the…
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My learnings came not only from our successes, but a lot of the key learnings came from failures. When you do experience failure rather than to run away from it, you have to sit down and do a good post-mortem and learn from your failures.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
If you have a great show, you have a great business. If you don't have a good show, you have no business. What it means is that show has to come first. Don't start the day by saying 'how many tickets am I going to sell today?'
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
When we open a new show, it started with about 20 creators at the table, and I will say to the rest of the company, 'leave them alone. I don't want them to be bugged by HR or finance or administrative stuff. I want them to breathe and eat and sleep only about the artistic content of the next show'.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
Being creative is about being a collective. It's not something unique. Cirque is not a one man, or a one woman show. It's a collective. That's why we can nurture each other's creativity.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
There is no business without creativity. And I think we have a lot of examples of great organisations that didn't want to be creative. Kodak is a good example, they didn't want to see the digital world! Creativity for me is the first condition to establish yourself as a leader in whatever you do in life.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
If a company doesn't have a purpose, I think they are wasting their life. Making money should be the result of helping people to build businesses.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
You cannot just say to people, 'oh be creative' and then there will be a waste of time. You have to be very clear in what you are looking for and listen to people.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
Being creative is about being a collective. It's not something unique. That's why we can nurture each other's creativity.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
At Cirque, we never talk about diversity because we live diversity. We have people in our organisation coming from 80 different countries. I like to describe us as citizens of the world.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
There is no business without creativity. Creativity for me is the first condition to establish yourself as a leader in whatever you do in life.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
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