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How jazz can teach us about problem solvingWhy is jazz an important model for the world of business in the 21st century? Jazz is lucid, original and innovative music played in collaboration with one another and in real time. The high performance team dynamics of the jazz ensemble demonstrate a process that promotes and facilitates exploration of new ideas. Moreover, jazz is a culture that rewards a willingness to change perspective and suspend judgment, to facilitate risk taking and to address the non-routine. The jazz ensemble embodies a improvisers are able to view errors as opportunities (rather than threats) by recognizing the relevance of mixing the expected with the novel. Jazz improvisation is a process that interweaves passion and purpose in pursuit of a goal. Key to the process of collaborative improvisation is the demand for constant critical listening to the performance of others and creative feedback based on the performance of others. The model of the jazz ensemble presents an organizational process that is both structured and purposeful but at the same time flexible enough to allow for individual creativity. Jazz Impact presents the metaphor of the jazz ensemble as a catalyst for thinking, envisioning and acting in ways that are directly relevant to the need for creative thinking and action in modern organizations. Jazz Impact was developed by Michael Gold, Ph.D. Mr. Gold spent many years as a jazz bassist in New York City. In addition to performing, he taught extensively and ran the jazz department at Vassar College. In 1995 he received a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts for a program that he designed to teach the skills of jazz improvisation to professional orchestral musicians. The idea for Jazz Impact crystallized in 1996 when Mr. Gold became vice president of operations for a financial services company in Minneapolis. Michael Gold is an exciting speaker whose vision of collaborative dynamics and passion for jazz will enlighten, entertain, and motivate the people whose collaborative skills and creative energy you value. Michael is a key facilitator in the new Catalyst Ranch arts-based learning facilitator line-up! This month's Pearl is brought to you by Michael Gold, founder of Jazz Impact. To know more about Jazz Impact, www.jazz-impact.com. |
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