Can comedy and rock'n'roll help business?

This from the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8414929.stm

Riffs, Myths and Creativity

Peter Cook. author of 'Sex, Leadership and Rock'n'Roll mixes ideas about business creativity and innovation with music. In this brief clip he discusses musical scales and their relationship with creativity at work.
http://www.youtube.com/academyofrock#p/a/DB73A1A7A782ACCF/0/BnFkXX5dVYs

John Kao and the Innovation Agenda

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/science/24prof.html?_r=1&ref=science

Sidewalk Menagerie

Joshua Allen Harris's recycled sidewalk menagerie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo

Imagination

From my friend Joe Miguez - the Labyrinth man.

What is imagination?.....

" The faculty of imagination," wrote Dugald Stewart," is the principal source of human improvement."..... THE MINDS' EYE.--- Human imagination enables us to transcend mortal limitations of space and time, to experience what was, what can be , what can never be; It opens vistas that are not available to the senses."

By his imagination," writes Frank Barron, "man makes new universes which are never to the hearts desire."

The sorcery and charm of imagination and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight makes it one of the most treasures of all human capacities.....

This is from the 2nd edition - Experiences in Visual Thinking by Robert H Mckim.

Music for Change

Music for change - check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08

Eureka Moments

A dream about Bartôk brought Malcolm Gillies his conceptual breakthrough, although it would take him another five years to finish writing it down.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=409185