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“You learn more about a person in an hour of play
than in a lifetime of conversation.”
Plato
“A team is a small number of people
with complementary skills who are committed
to a common purpose, performance goals,
and approach for which they hold themselves
mutually accountable.”
Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith,
“The Wisdom of Teams“
“Recognizing people's diverse motives
for participating is an essential first
step in mobilizing their contributions.
Creating an opportunity for all to succeed
- whatever their motives - is an essential
second step in harnessing their contributions
even when the room at the top is not big
enough for all.”
Michael Useem, “The Leadership
Moment”
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Mark Twain
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“Surprise exists. Expect the unexpected, because
control is not tight and because the system
is adapting in real-time to unpredictable
changes … turn mistakes into advantages.”
Shona L. Brown, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt,
“Competing on the Edge”
“The model for management that we
have right now is the opera. The conductor
of an opera has a very large number of
different groups that he has to pull together.
The soloists, the chorus, the ballet, the
orchestra, all have to come together but
they have a common score. What we are increasingly
talking about today are diversified groups
that have to write the score while they
perform. What you need now is a good jazz
group.”
— Peter Drucker, Wired, 1996
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein
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Organizing
Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Patricia Ward Biederman, Warren
G. Bennis |
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Creativity
in Context: Update to the Social Psychology
of Creativity
Teresa M. Amabile, Mary Ann Collins,
Regina Conti, Elise Phillips |
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Innovation:
Breakthrough Thinking at 3M, DuPont, GE,
Pfizer, and Rubbermaid
(Businessmasters Series)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Fred Wiersema,
John J. Kao, Tom Peters |
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The
Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity
from Ideo, America's Leading Design Firm
Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman, Tom
Peters |
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The
Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher
Creativity
Julia Cameron |
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Improv to Improve:
Use of
Improvisational Theater to Increase Organizational
Effectiveness, Insights to a Changing World,
Volume 2002, Issue 4, pp. 1-17.
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Improv Goes to the
Ol' Fishin' Hole:
Using
Improvisational Theater Techniques to Teach
FiSH Philosophies, Insights to a Changing
World, Volume 2003, Issue 3, pp.
99-115.
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“Jazz
is just riffing on your mistakes.”
Ornette Coleman
“Daring ideas are like chessmen
moved forward. They may be beaten,
but they may start a winning game.”
Goethe
“The human mind likes a
strange idea as little as the
body likes a strange protein and
resists it with a similar energy.”
W.I. Beveridge
The concept of “Oops!”
to “Eureka!” - Columbus
was looking for India. Madame
Curie failed an experiment and
discovered radium. What was your
last big “mistake”?
ImprovEdge
“Either you let your life
slip away by not doing the things
you want to do, or you get up
and do them.”
Carl Ally
“As soon as you have made
a thought, laugh at it.”
Lao Tzu
“Every child is an artist.
The challenge is to remain an
artist after you grow up.”
Pablo Picasso
“The most wasted of all
days is one without laughter...”
ee cummings
“Great discoveries and improvements
invariably involve the cooperation
of many minds.”
Alexander Graham Bell
“The secret is to work less
as individuals and more as a team.
As a coach, I play not my eleven
best, but my best eleven.”
Knute Rockne
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At
any given time in a performance,
know who the leader (soloist)
is and where you are in the piece.
