Preface

Why Music Might Make You a Better Project Manager

This book is, ultimately, about the intersection and exchange of ideas, the celebration of similarity and difference, and a story of a search for insight. The product of a dialogue between and across disciplines, we have sought to explore the relationship between two apparently distinct fields of practice in music and project management (PM) as a means of developing new ideas. This text documents the story of this dialogue and presents the ideas developed through this conversation.

Music, as ubiquitous and diverse as language in human culture, represents a distinctive activity through which to consider PM from a different perspective. A remarkable cultural project in and of itself, music ...

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