http://blog.clomedia.com/2012/05/ld-and-all-that-jazz-at-astd/
“Jazz is a conversation that is comfortable with uncertainty and new knowledge,” said John Kao at the ASTD conference keynote session last week.
Jazz, he says, is a metaphor for innovation – where you need a combination of improvisation and discipline.
“If you play just to what’s on the sheet of music in front of you, you’re limiting your options. Jazz musicians have a different mission – to go new ways with the music and create new notes and moments.”
The freedom found in the limitations creates the magic.
Develop the basic skills needed to play the notes – build your capacity first, set the ground rules, set the target – but realize that the real innovation happens in the space between that structure and the unknown.
