Improvisation and Management - can it really work together?

[Martin Ciesielski]

What does it need for improv to become an accepted management tool - like balanced score cards or budgeting? Isn´t it the problem that improv shows directly that you made a mistake and so you are responsible? the art of doing business today id mainly that you can point to someone else. no responsibility or at least only in case of success. what can be small steps to change this or: any examples where it already works (beside creativity and brainstorming sessions...)?

[Martin Ciesielski]

Yes! And we should try to contact these schools in Germany and offer them improv - basing on more theoretical background and always connections of the exercises to the world of management. I think fpr Germany it´s importent to know theoretical stuff for showing that improv works and why we should use it more in the network society. when I watch videos of improv-sessions with american managers I totally see that we can´t do it THIS way in Germany. What´s the difference in doing it?

[Adam StJohn Lawrence]

I am not sure that it is impossible. I often do crazy things with German managers.

At first, they look at me strangely, but then they start to play - and go crazy. It is a question of how you introduce it, how much you believe in it, and what atmosphere you can create.

Perhaps I have a "bonus" because I am foreign, so it is easier to tolerate my "craziness"... :)