Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Jamming - which follows rules but not individual notes - gives you a different result each time, depending upon the players and… — John Kao Adaptable Copy Share Image
Rather than managing by clarifying events, the creative process may require raising the level of uncertainty. Sometimes this can be done by… — John Kao Copy Share Image
I would argue that the management of creativity requires a skill set that's relatively different from the traditional management skill set that… — John Kao Copy Share Image
A large part of the impresario's job has to do with maintaining and communicating standards of performance. Knowing how to set those… — John Kao Copy Share Image
In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only… — John Kao 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 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
You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You… — John Kao Accountability Copy Share Image
Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim… — John Kao Copy Share Image
The conventional asset-allocation method is like sheet music. It is prescribed, it has right answers and wrong answers and it sounds about… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Obviously businesses do not operate like an artists' commune. Business involves deploying finite resources to achieve goals in a competitive environment to… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Managing the creative process means selecting the best people and then letting them do their work. That means nurturing. It also means,… — John Kao Creating Copy Share Image
When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could… — John Kao Creative Copy Share Image
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate… — John Kao Copy Share Image
All of these creative ideas and decisions about new ways to reach the consumer can be tracked with regard to how well… — John Kao Awareness 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
