The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.

You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.

The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.

The impresario's job is to pick the right people who can pick the right people. He picks the people who can pick artists and relate to them. People who know what the market craves.

There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in order to conduct its business. But there are also the "left brain" accounting functions that must continually ask how the company is doing financially and whether the creative processes are working for the bottom line.