Comments on: It’s Kind of Like Jazz Improv . . . http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/2009/09/its-kind-of-like-jazz-improv/ Increasing collaborative capacity in communities and organizations through intentionally designed workplace environments, multi-stakeholder conversations, organizational systems and individual and team training. Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:42:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Amy http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/2009/09/its-kind-of-like-jazz-improv/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Amy Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:42:36 +0000 http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/?p=116#comment-389 Brian, I totally agree that it's all in the conversation--verbal and non-verbal! You've quoted pianist Monty Alexander on your website: Jazz, at its best, is a situation in which participants willingly support each other, working together as one, each player bringing virtuosity, optimism, mutual respect, good will, and the desire to make it feel good. What a great quote, which totally captures what intentional collaboration is all about. In your work, what kinds of structures have you seen implemented in organizations or conversations that actually support this? What are leaders that you work with discovering? Brian, I totally agree that it’s all in the conversation–verbal and non-verbal! You’ve quoted pianist Monty Alexander on your website:

Jazz, at its best, is a situation in which participants willingly support each other, working together as one, each player bringing virtuosity, optimism, mutual respect, good will, and the desire to make it feel good.

What a great quote, which totally captures what intentional collaboration is all about. In your work, what kinds of structures have you seen implemented in organizations or conversations that actually support this? What are leaders that you work with discovering?

]]> By: cheri http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/2009/09/its-kind-of-like-jazz-improv/comment-page-1/#comment-13 cheri Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:18:59 +0000 http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/?p=116#comment-13 Brian, I totally agree that it's all in the conversation--verbal and non-verbal! You've quoted pianist Monty Alexander on your website: Jazz, at its best, is a situation in which participants willingly support each other, working together as one, each player bringing virtuosity, optimism, mutual respect, good will, and the desire to make it feel good. What a great quote, which totally captures what intentional collaboration is all about. In your work, what kinds of structures have you seen implemented in organizations or conversations that actually support this? What are leaders that you work with discovering? Brian, I totally agree that it’s all in the conversation–verbal and non-verbal! You’ve quoted pianist Monty Alexander on your website:

Jazz, at its best, is a situation in which participants willingly support each other, working together as one, each player bringing virtuosity, optimism, mutual respect, good will, and the desire to make it feel good.

What a great quote, which totally captures what intentional collaboration is all about. In your work, what kinds of structures have you seen implemented in organizations or conversations that actually support this? What are leaders that you work with discovering?

]]> By: Brian Fraser http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/2009/09/its-kind-of-like-jazz-improv/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Brian Fraser Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:52:36 +0000 http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/?p=116#comment-12 Delighted to see others exploring the metaphor of jazz for organizational and leadership development. And your focus on structure is crucial. For me, it's finding the creative tension between structures that enable collaboration and freedom that invites individual creativity. Finding that 'groove' in any given situation is the key. In our Jazzthink keynotes and workshops, the connection with everyday work life we draw is that the most common form of jazz or improvisation is ordinary conversation. If you build your teams and exercise your leadership through conversations (and we all do), then you are a jazz musician and can learn a lot from the masters of the art. In the end, I think that managers and leaders need to create structures that stimulate and sustain conversations among the right people about the right ideas that result in people doing the right things, improvising on the core charts of great organizational performance discovered by Jim Collins. Delighted to see others exploring the metaphor of jazz for organizational and leadership development. And your focus on structure is crucial. For me, it’s finding the creative tension between structures that enable collaboration and freedom that invites individual creativity. Finding that ‘groove’ in any given situation is the key. In our Jazzthink keynotes and workshops, the connection with everyday work life we draw is that the most common form of jazz or improvisation is ordinary conversation. If you build your teams and exercise your leadership through conversations (and we all do), then you are a jazz musician and can learn a lot from the masters of the art. In the end, I think that managers and leaders need to create structures that stimulate and sustain conversations among the right people about the right ideas that result in people doing the right things, improvising on the core charts of great organizational performance discovered by Jim Collins.

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