The Jazz Process: Collaboration, Innovation, and Agility (Paperback)

"An insider’s guide to translating the creative techniques of jazz to the business world.”

Scott Berkun, author of The Myths of Innovation

What Can Your Team Learn From Jazz Musicians?

Experienced jazz musicians apply specific principles to collaborate, execute, and manage change in real time--delivering extraordinary innovation in the face of non-stop pressure and risk. Now, jazz musician and collaboration expert Adrian Cho shows how you can use the same principles to dramatically improve any team’s performance.

Cho systematically introduces the Jazz Process and demonstrates how it can help cross-functional teams improve teamwork, innovation, and execution. You’ll learn new ways to encourage and integrate strong individual contributions from passionate and committed practitioners, and give them maximum autonomy while making sure your project’s “music” never degenerates into chaotic “noise.”

Through multiple case studies, Cho shows you how high-performance teams achieve their success.

• Master five core principles of working in teams: use just enough rules, employ top talent, put the team first, build trust and respect, and commit with passion

• Establish a realistic framework for effective, continuous execution

• Collaborate more effectively with team members, consumers, customers, partners, and suppliers

• Master the essentials of team execution: listening for change, leading on demand, acting transparently, and making every contribution count

• Reduce the “friction” associated with collaboration--and increase the synergy

• Use form, tempo, pulse, and groove to maintain constructive momentum

• Learn about the importance of healthy projects and teams

• Innovate by exchanging ideas and taking the right measured risks

• For every practitioner, leader, and manager interested in getting better results

「將爵士樂的創意技巧轉化為商業世界的內幕指南。」
《創新神話》作者Scott Berkun

爵士樂手在實時合作、執行和管理變革時應用特定原則，面對不斷的壓力和風險，提供非凡的創新。現在，爵士樂手和協作專家Adrian Cho展示了如何使用相同的原則，顯著提高任何團隊的表現。

Cho系統地介紹了爵士流程，並展示了如何幫助跨職能團隊改善團隊合作、創新和執行。您將學習到鼓勵和整合來自充滿熱情和承諾的從業者的強大個人貢獻的新方法，並在確保項目的「音樂」不變成混亂的「噪音」的同時，給予他們最大的自主權。

通過多個案例研究，Cho向您展示了高效團隊如何取得成功。

• 掌握團隊合作的五個核心原則：「適度使用規則，聘用頂尖人才，把團隊放在首位，建立信任和尊重，以及充滿激情的承諾」
• 建立有效、持續執行的現實框架
• 更有效地與團隊成員、消費者、客戶、合作夥伴和供應商協作
• 掌握團隊執行的要素：「聆聽變革，按需領導，透明行事，以及讓每一個貢獻都有價值」
• 減少協作中的「摩擦」，增加協同效應
• 使用形式、節奏、脈搏和韻律保持建設性的動力
• 了解健康項目和團隊的重要性
• 通過交換想法和採取適當的風險進行創新
• 適用於每一位從業者、領導者和經理，都希望獲得更好結果的人

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