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What we can learn about business from the jazz greats
Kathleen Gilroy learned several lessons about business from famous jazz musicians: 1. Like jazz ensembles, successful businesses require teamwork over many years, often without immediate recognition or financial rewards. 2. Quotes from jazz greats emphasize the importance of setting goals, focusing on quality over image, and constantly improving one's skills through practice. 3. Creativity involves simplifying complex ideas, as illustrated by the musician who said "I stole everything I heard."
What we can learn about business from the jazz greats
- 1. 1 What I learnedabout business from the jazz greats Kathleen Gilroy, CEO, GeoGo™
- 2. 2 How jazz andbusiness are alike ‣ You work in an ensemble ‣ You work for years without recognition or pay ‣ You drink and take drugs to tolerate the risk and failure
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- 5. 5 “A goal isa dream with a finish line.”
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- 7. 7 “There are twokinds of music. Good. And the other kind.”
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- 9. 9 “I stole everythingI heard. But I mostly stole from the horns.”
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- 11. 11 While they aresinging your praises, they are stealing your phrases.
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- 13. 13 “The most importantthing I look for in a musician is if he knows how to listen.”
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- 15. 15 “If they acttoo hip, they ain’t got shit.”
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- 17. 17 If I don’tpractice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.
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- 19. 19 “Anyone can makethe simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.”
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- 21. 21 I still gotmy Ferrari.
- 22. 22 What I learnedabout business from the jazz greats Kathleen Gilroy, CEO, GeoGo™