Where Work and Art Meet: “Theater, Jazz and Business Success”

An interesting post from the Creativity and Innovation blog: Theater, Jazz and Business Success.  The post examines a New York City based group called Creativity Connection.  The group uses collaborative music and arts projects to help businesses train employees.  For example… “Lucent’s world headquarters has brought in a five-man jazz ensemble, to demonstrate to managers how musicians work collaboratively under demanding constraints.”  This makes total sense to me.  My concentration in college was theater, and I still play with a band today.  And so many of the challenges that face collaborative artists, and so many of the skills that make a great play or piece of music really work, are the same that are faced by workers in innovative and challenging environments.  Among these: the ability to really stay in tune and time with what others are doing, while also having a perfect focus on your own task and the ability to set aside ego during creative negotiations.

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