CHAPTER 1

What Can Music Teach Us?

Music can change the world because it can change people.

—Bono

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is this freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

—Dave Brubeck

This chapter will teach you the concept, principles, and framework for creating a workplace jazz environment.

Now, before I get into the concepts, principles, and frameworks, let me share with you how I discovered the power of music and what it has taught me throughout my life and is still teaching me today.

During my childhood, the world experienced the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., and the Vietnam War. It was a challenging ...

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