Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business. — John Kao Audience Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the impresario must know when to simply get out of the way. — John Kao Knows Copy Share Image
You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them. — John Kao Able Copy Share Image
A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society. — John Kao Capability Copy Share Image
The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment… — John Kao Challenges Copy Share Image
Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz,… — John Kao Built Copy Share Image
Conducting a creativity audit can be very illuminating because it can tell you how the process is working internally and against the… — John Kao Audit Copy Share Image
The larger the price tag, the more you have to adopt what I call the postmodern management approach. What I mean by… — John Kao Approach Copy Share Image
Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good,… — John Kao Audience Copy Share Image
The impresario's job is to pick the right people who can pick the right people. He picks the people who can pick… — John Kao Art Copy Share Image
Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it… — John Kao Be creative Copy Share Image
It takes creativity at every stage to make the discontinuous leap from one level of knowledge to the next. These discontinuous leaps… — John Kao Creation Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be… — John Kao Be creative Copy Share Image
Every day, there are 770 million Cokes consumed, which means that there are 770 million purchasing decisions made each day regarding the… — John Kao Advertising Copy Share Image
An organization is really a factory for producing new ideas and for linking those ideas with resources - human resources, financial resources,… — John Kao Effort Copy Share Image
The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time. — John Kao Accommodate Copy Share Image
You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to… — John Kao Able Copy Share Image
