My Improv Article at Innovation Tools

Innovation Tools is featuring an article I wrote, Creative Collaboration: Lessons from Improv Theater, on Applied Improv, based on my experience performing with Precipice Improv and applying improv principles and practices in organizations.

Click here for the article.

Comments

[Tom Goddard]

What a wonderful article! Clear as a bell and, as you suggest, filled with life-lessons, not just improve techniques.

Congrats, Michelle.

[Michelle James]

Thanks so much, Tom!

[Lynne Kemmer]

Hi Michelle,
WOW...very very interesting!! Would love to discuss...Lynne

[Nick Bush]

Great article. I'll be referencing it in a blog post later. We've just had the annual London Jazz Festival in the UK (I'm a big fan of improvised music) and I was reminded how jazz musicians find freedom and self expression in evironments ranging from those with almost no constraints to those that have quite tight structures.

I won't forget seeing Herbie Hancock lost in a child-like rapture through most of his band's lengthy set - your point about unlearning the barriers we put in to inhibit the creativity we are born with is very well made.

[Michelle]

Thanks so much, Nick! You might like John Kao's business creativity book, Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity - he uses jazz as the metaphor throughout the book.

[Michelle]

Thanks, Lynne - would love to discuss! :-)