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Obviously businesses do not operate like an artists’ commune. Business involves deploying finite resources to achieve goals in a competitive environment to make money. That is something creative people understand  (John Kao Quotes) Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.  (John Kao Quotes) If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products.  (John Kao Quotes) Coca-Cola can get really fresh output because it is getting people who are outside the traditional model and they are combining ideas in very novel ways.  (John Kao Quotes) Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting  (John Kao Quotes) You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.  (John Kao Quotes) Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value  (John Kao Quotes) Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can’t communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn’t going to happen  (John Kao Quotes) Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits  (John Kao Quotes) Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body  (John Kao Quotes) A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society  (John Kao Quotes)