Back to jazz. The child is on the playground. The child knows there is a fence. The child feels safe and curious. And within the basic feeling of safety, the child goes exploring. Without an assignment.
There are a few agreements. The fence is one of them. Whatever the children share with each other is a language, compare it to tones in music.
Vloeimans: “We play a number, that is the first and one of the few certainties we have. In music you have to speak the musical language with each other. We use our Western tonality system, in which we have chords, functions of chords and concepts such as major and minor. And you have a melody and rhythm. That is what music consists of. Music is not making sound, it is music. Music is a search for a new composition of chords, melodies and rhythm. And in that search you have to hospitals mailing list listen to each other. Listen very carefully. If I play a major, you have to be very good to play a minor against it. Then you can make the structure collapse. You have to hear that from each other. If you don't hear that, you are not a good musician, it's that simple.”
That is the paradox. Creativity is the challenge to exploit the unknown to the maximum with a minimal set of clear agreements.
The limitations: a fence, a language, chords, a rhythm, a melody. The conditions: quality, trust and listening.
Now, if you test these concepts against the conditions under which a team works together successfully. If need be, you can call it a scrum team. But it can certainly be bigger. An organization. A board of directors. A government, why not.
Indeed, we can still learn a lot from the original constellation under which jazz was once born.
Social media in its current form has been a concept for over ten years now. In the beginning it was a stormy revolution with disruption in almost every sector. More and more companies have understood social and are using its power in various ways. That is why it is now increasingly a fixed part of the company strategy. I am not clairvoyant and I cannot predict the future of social media watertight. But I can look at the present, share the existing trends and developments with you and tell you in which direction we are likely to move.