The Aesthetic Turn in Management

[20]Creativity and Improvisation in Jazz and Organizations: Implications for Organizational Learning

Frank J. Barrett

Department of Systems Management, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 93943

I wake to sleep and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke, poet

We must simply act, fully knowing our ignorance of possible consequences.

Kenneth Arrow, economist

I think the fear of failure is why I try things … if I see that there’s some value in something and I’m not sure whether I deserve to attempt it, I want to find out.

Keith Jarrett, jazz pianist

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we are in the midst of a revolution that has been called variously the post-industrial society (Bell 1973), ...