What Businesses Can Learn From Jazz

We’re all helping each other out, listening to each other and trying to make it work. There’s nobody going, ‘Oh, I’m right, you guys are wrong.’ It’s all about hearing what’s going on and helping it be better.

In this edited rebroadcast from Season 2, Episode 2, we explore the surprising lessons a professional jazz quintet can teach us about business cultures and teams.

We’ve trimmed this episode down to the discussions around the music, but if you’re a fan of live jazz, you can click below to check out the original from 2021.

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Episode transcription

Peter Green

Today’s show is a rebroadcast of one of our favorite episodes, Season 2, Episode 2, where we shared the lessons I’ve learned playing in jazz groups over the years and how those apply to business culture and teams. In this rebroadcast version, we’ve trimmed it down to just the discussions around the music. If you are a fan of live jazz, you can check out the original version from 2021, which we’ll link to in the show notes.

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The original episode

Season 2 Episode 2: Jazz, Teams, and Work

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