Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.
It takes creativity at every stage to make the discontinuous leap from one level of knowledge to the next. These discontinuous leaps of understanding… - John Kao
It takes creativity at every stage to make the discontinuous leap from one level of knowledge to the next. These discontinuous leaps of understanding…
- John Kao
The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful. - John Kao
The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.
An organization is really a factory for producing new ideas and for linking those ideas with resources - human resources, financial resources, knowle… - John Kao
An organization is really a factory for producing new ideas and for linking those ideas with resources - human resources, financial resources, knowle…
You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them. - John Kao
You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.
The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do wh… - John Kao
The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do wh…
Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the… - John Kao
Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the…
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz b… - John Kao
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz b…
Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body. - John Kao
Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.
Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting. - John Kao
Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting.
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