>Replying to LO12267 --
>Slamet Hendry discussed "improvisation" (his quotes, so I'll keep 'em) and
>innovation in an organization as much like it is in jazz. He cited Max
>DePree's "Leadership is an Art" and "Leadership Jazz."
>I'd like to add one more book to the reading room: "Jamming: the art and
>discipline of business creativity" by John Kao, pub. by HarperCollins,
>1996. Kao is a jazz fan who applies the "improvisation" model to org.
>innovation. Sez he: "When we have a great conversation, we are jamming. .
>. When a company walks the tightrope between analytical rigor and
>inspired passion, when it leaves the sheet music behind for new horizons,
>it is jamming." At the end of each chapter, he calls his bulleted
>summaries "Riffs."
>Slamet closed with " 'Organizational artists.' I like that idea." So do
>I, kid.
>Mark Peal
>Massachusetts Medical Society, Waltham, Mass., USA
Right on!
Best wishes,
Andrew Campbell
[Host's Note: Thanks, Andrew, for quoting this message from the distant
past of the LO list. Reading in the archives again, eh? ..Rick]
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