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While I was listening Buddy Rich´s very fascinating big band from the 1970s with my iTunes, I got the feeling. You can use big bands metaphorically, when you are deeply involved in thinking creativity in organisations. During the weekend I was by some means digging out articles around collaboration on the Web. This is one of my passions. I am persistently focusing on how we can cultivate and engourage creativeness in organisations? Since 2007 I have actively been studying this topic throught many perspectives.

As usual I was turning on last.fm (web-based music site) and tuning its channel to Dave Brubeck´s and similar. I am keen on to listen music when I am studing. Of course, there were many artists whose playing were very enthusiastically performed before Buddy Rich. But this former New York born drummer and his colleagues embraced my mind with their spontaneous attitude.

It was definitely the medley “Tommy Medley: Eyesight to the Blind / Champagne / See Me, Feel Me” which makes me so stunned (positively). The famous drummer with his sticks keeping rhythm, saxophones and other brass sections expressing intensively their responses while the basist was giving his walking bass-style as a guide for the entire band. Each of them know exactly their roles without losing their touch to improvising.

It makes sense to me to consider big bands as models for creativity in large groups. In both area, it´s a crucial to create atmosphere in which you can improvise without losing the track of the entire organisation.