Voices within – A Business Creativity Workshop, June 1, 2007 at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai
Voices Within is a Business Creativity Workshop presented jointly by Bombay Jayashri, T. M Krishna (two leading exponents and sought after Carnatic Music vocalists) founders of Matrka and R. Sridhar , Innovation Coach and Partner, IDEAS-RS.
Voices within is India's first Coffee Table book on Carnatic Music and is a labour of love by Jayashri, Krishna and Mythili Chandrasekhar (an advertising professional). They present the life and times of seven Carnatic Music Giants in the book. They explain how the maestros not only made a mark for themselves but also changed the landscape of Carnatic Music forever. The workshop is based on this book published by Matrka, a trust dedicated to Carnatic Music, founded by Jayashri and Krishna.
Bold experiment The workshop is a bold experiment and a fresh new way of looking at one field and examining how it can influence another. The best thinkers – philosophers, artists, poets and scientists have done this all the time. The unusual connection is not about music and business- but practice of creativity and innovation in music and how it can influence business.
Lessons for business The workshop is a study of seven maestros who innovated in a highly tradition bound and conventional form of music and succeeded. It demonstrates their techniques and how they can help businesses in a fast changing world, where the biggest barrier to progress and growth is 'traditional mind sets'. The workshop shows how to retain core values that matter and innovate without compromise. Most importantly, it shows us how we can confront change, before it overtakes us.
Workshop Content | Benefits | Workshop Kit | Workshop Faculty | Register today and save Rs 600
Workshop Content The workshop will cover the following:
a. Paint the context of the Carnatic Music Scenario that went through a major period of change and turbulence in the early 20 th century. Trace the work of the seven maestros and how they innovated. This will be in the form of a concert/lecture demonstration by Jayashri and Krishna (with proper accompaniments)
b. Draw from this a set of key principles. Demonstrate the relevance of these key principles to business in the current context of globalisation. This will be an interactive hands-on-workshop by R. Sridhar
Benefits What you get is a set of simple to use creative thinking techniques, which will help you come out with fresh and different solutions to your business challenges. Armed with these techniques you will never again have to face a 'mental block'. What is more, these techniques will help you ignite your imagination, and come out with fresh ideas on demand even under pressure.
Workshop Kit All participants get a copy of the coffee table book Voices Within, a Voices Within Business Creativity workbook and an interesting memento. The coffee table book will be a great addition to your collection. It could also be a wonderful gift to some one important to you.
Practical and down-to-earth As a result, you will find the workshop neither esoteric nor vague. It is carefully tailored to meet the needs of the practising managers of today. It recognises the fast changing trends in business and delivers relevant thinking techniques that the manager can put to practical use. In fact, all the thinking techniques will be demonstrated with a live business case in the workshop itself.
Workshop Faculty
Bombay Jayashri One of the most sought after Carnatic Music exponents, Jayashri brings to the table not only her creative skills as a musician but also her deep understanding of audiences and students. Her contribution to music extends to composing music for productions, experimenting with other forms of music, and teaching. She is continuously researching various aspects of Carnatic music with a view to unearthing treasures for the next generation. Widely traveled around the world and articulate, Jayashri is a convincing communicator. She has conducted workshops and lecture demonstrations at Monash,Australia, University of Kwazulunatal,South africa and University of Botswana , Gaborne.
She is a co-founder of Matrka dedicated to Carnatic Music and presenting it in all its glory.
T M Krishna Krishna brings boundless energy and enthusiasm to his Carnatic Music performances as a singer of distinction. His fan following is wide spread and cuts across all ages and indeed countries. He prides himself in being a 'classicist' and is passionate about preserving and presenting the core values of Carnatic Music. When he is not singing or traveling, Krishna spends time unearthing unknown talent, researching and documenting old composers and their compositions, teaching and conducting workshops for corporates. Krishna has conducted lecture demonstrations at Harvard, Wesleyan University and IIT, Chennai.
He is a co-founder of Matrka.
Track record Jayashri's and Krishna's reputations are built around understanding audiences and delighting them. They understand the demands of their audience, their preferences and have a finger on the pulse of their fast changing tastes and diminishing attention spans.
They can tell us a lot about the practice of creativity & innovation within a tightly defined framework of music (freedom of a tightly defined strategy). Their extensive research into music, composers and maestros give us deep insights into how one can innovate even in an apparently traditional and conventional field and appeal to an ever-changing audience across the globe. They make these insights come alive with their concert and lecture demonstration.
They have put in considerable effort into making this workshop relevant, interesting and entertaining.Sridhar builds the bridge with business and makes it relevant to business.
R. Sridhar Sridhar is an advertising, direct marketing, and brand marketing professional. After 25 long years with Ogilvy & Mather India(where he was a Director) Sridhar moved out in 2000. IDEAS-RS is his professional consulting firm dedicated to promoting Innovation and Creativity in Business. As part of his consulting work, Sridhar has facilitated over 300 Business Creativity workshops for a variety of clients in India and abroad. Clients value his ability to bring Simplicity, Clarity, Rigour and Enjoyment into the thinking process.
Sridhar is a keen student of Carnatic Music as much as he is passionate about business innovation. In the book Voices Within he finds a treasure trove of ideas on creativity, which will be relevant to business.
Limited registrations We are limiting the number of participants to just 100 in view of the exclusive nature of the workshop and its contents. This is to ensure a proper creative climate and interactivity. One good reason to register early.
Rare Event Jayashri, Krishna and Sridhar have a busy schedule in the second half of 2007. As a result the next Voices Within - Business Creativity Workshop is unlikely to happen before March 2008. Therefore the June 1st workshop will be the only one this year. A good reason not to miss it.
Register today and save Rs 600 Please register before May 20, 2007 fee for the workshop and pay only Rs 5050 per participant, inclusive of service tax. (It is Rs 5650 after May 20, 2007)
All cheques to be drawn in favour of IDEAS-RS and mailed to IDEAS-RS, 57, Bharat Tirtha CHS, Sion Trombay road, Chembur, Mumbai 400 071.
Venue & Date The workshop is scheduled for Friday, June 1, 2007 from 9:30am to 3:00pm at the Grand Hyatt, Off Western Express Highway, Santa Cruz(East),Mumbai 400 055. Registrations start at 9:00 am
Contact R. Sridhar on 98201 83752 or 022 2520 9313 e mail: [email protected]
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coolkarni
As someone who lost every single pie and asset he had in this material world - while pursuing a business - and gaining all of it ,and much more , back, I can tell you this much.
For Those who cannot afford the price of this workshop, I Recommend a second hand copy of "Old man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway.
For Those who cannot afford the price of this workshop, I Recommend a second hand copy of "Old man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway.
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mahakavi
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vasya10
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mahakavi
It is quite common in the US that sports personalities (players, coaches) are brought in as "inspiration" speakers (for a hefty fee, mind you!) to sales meetings. The salespeople are "motivated" by these inspiration speakers to produce more sales (the company depends on them and the salespeople get more commission too) and as such they are self-serving. They call it "win-win" for all--except that the extra expenses will ultimately be passed on to the gullible consumers.
Now I am not sure who is using whom in "exploiting" CM by touting its utility in business in India. I see CM entering the business of medicine too in a veiled form. The funny thing here is that those folks in business are cajoled into attending such conferences by instilling some fear in them that if they lose out on this chance they cannot succeed in business. Of course, don't worry about the exorbitant fees. They are borne by the companies who send their employees to such workshops. I bet if 100 people attend such workshops there would be just a handful of attendees who pay the fees out of their pockets.
If you ask the conference organizers they would swear by such workshops just like the western companies do. The only difference in this music workshop is that it provides a native flavor. It is all in the game!
Now I am not sure who is using whom in "exploiting" CM by touting its utility in business in India. I see CM entering the business of medicine too in a veiled form. The funny thing here is that those folks in business are cajoled into attending such conferences by instilling some fear in them that if they lose out on this chance they cannot succeed in business. Of course, don't worry about the exorbitant fees. They are borne by the companies who send their employees to such workshops. I bet if 100 people attend such workshops there would be just a handful of attendees who pay the fees out of their pockets.
If you ask the conference organizers they would swear by such workshops just like the western companies do. The only difference in this music workshop is that it provides a native flavor. It is all in the game!
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jayaram
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Let me offer a slightly less cynical take on this topic.
Areas such as business can benefit from 'cross-fertilization' with other areas of human activity. E.g. chaos theory from Physics has been used effectively in the stock-market arena. The idea is to help get an entirely different (and often refreshing) perspective on what you have been doing for years, with the objective of coming up with novel and creative solutions to issues. Terms such 'thinking outside the box' may have become cliches today, but that doesn't take away the positives that come with these techniques.
Analogy is a powerful tool in management thinking, and I suspect concepts such as manodharma singing, neraval etc. from CM can be used effectively to bring out new ways of looking at problems. How far you can push your creative ideas is often subject to a 'structure' of its own, which has a parallel in CM in terms of the 'grammar' for these extempore essays by the musician. The regular sadhakam done by the musician can be analogous to the entrepreneurial mindset that a good business manager needs to develop thru years of on-the-job experimentation.
Having said all this, personally I would love to attend one of these workshops, if only to listen to some good music by two excellent musicians on the concert circuit today.
Areas such as business can benefit from 'cross-fertilization' with other areas of human activity. E.g. chaos theory from Physics has been used effectively in the stock-market arena. The idea is to help get an entirely different (and often refreshing) perspective on what you have been doing for years, with the objective of coming up with novel and creative solutions to issues. Terms such 'thinking outside the box' may have become cliches today, but that doesn't take away the positives that come with these techniques.
Analogy is a powerful tool in management thinking, and I suspect concepts such as manodharma singing, neraval etc. from CM can be used effectively to bring out new ways of looking at problems. How far you can push your creative ideas is often subject to a 'structure' of its own, which has a parallel in CM in terms of the 'grammar' for these extempore essays by the musician. The regular sadhakam done by the musician can be analogous to the entrepreneurial mindset that a good business manager needs to develop thru years of on-the-job experimentation.
Having said all this, personally I would love to attend one of these workshops, if only to listen to some good music by two excellent musicians on the concert circuit today.
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coolkarni
My Mind goes back to my stint under Batalas UK , when I trained to be one of the earliest Lead Assessors for ISO Quality systems in India.The Use of one field to look at fresh ways in another field...
As part of that training they screened a wonderful Private Movie- A Sherlock Holmes Story.The movie starts with the Chief Executive being warned that there is a plot to Kill the Company , by attacking its softest spot-Quality.
He then approaches Sherlock Holmes , for a solution.
The Movie was shot exactly on the lines of a BBC serial , the Carriages, Baker street quarters.(Nigel Hawthorne acts as Sherlock Holmes), rainsoaked foggy London...
What follows is a classic synergy between art and management.Sherlock Hoilmes studies various aspects of the Company , looking for clues , with Dr Watson doing the usual stuff of looking up the wrong things.We, the audience are made to go through all the classic spots of deficiencies in that Company - where quality is about to be murdered-
The Systems the Processes...
On the day of the final reckoning , Holmes and Watson send the CEO first to an agreed location , where they are about to apprehend the Villain .
And at the appointed hour , late in the night, when they pounce on the Killer , The CEO is shocked to see a man with his own face ...
And then the movie continues , with the CEO waking up from a nightmare.The Movie all along was just a dream that had been playing on his mind.He now knew that He and He alone was ultimately responsible for the success (or failure) of the Quality Process in his Company.
For many years this movie had such an impact on my thinking process, I kept marveling at the craft of people who could conjure up such a combination.
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vasya10
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By the same token, Sri ARI must be 'criticized', because he broke the then sampradayam and introduced variety in kutcheri. We may also do the same to Sri Purandaradasa, who broke the then existing sampradayam and founding a new learning system etc.sustaining sampradayam, but he never starts his concerts by set patterns(varnams) like all other musicians
Innovation is certainly welcome. Our judgements are nothing before time, only he, who knows what withstands.
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sbala
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Whatever ARI did must have been backed by some kind of positive logic or a methodical approach.
But, singing varnams or geethams in the middle (which is what TMK is said to have done in some concerts) isn't necessarily an example of creativity or great innovation. It falls in the category of "What's wrong if we do it this way?" rather than "We should do it this way because"...Unless of course, he does have sound reasons for such changes.
But, singing varnams or geethams in the middle (which is what TMK is said to have done in some concerts) isn't necessarily an example of creativity or great innovation. It falls in the category of "What's wrong if we do it this way?" rather than "We should do it this way because"...Unless of course, he does have sound reasons for such changes.
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kssuresh
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I am sure even ARI would have faced some resistance. Any change does. When we value CM Sampradaya, it would seem, we have in mind adherence to the grammar of the music, and the different schools of singing (or playing). Experimentation with the concert pattern does not mean that the quality of music is any less sampradaya-bound. If TMK indeed does what he is reported to be doing with the pattern, I don't think it deserves to be taken exception to. May be in due course rasikas and performers alike will see some logic in it.sbala wrote:Whatever ARI did must have been backed by some kind of positive logic or a methodical approach.
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rshankar
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The only thing that matters is that the experiment find favor with the audiences - after all, even an extremely well thought out change will fall flat on it's face if the rasikas do not buy it, and a completely 'serendipitous' change (or a change without any apparent rhyme or reason) may become the rage if the audience laps it up.kssuresh wrote:[May be in due course rasikas and performers alike will see some logic in it.
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coolkarni
Another great example is the famous case of the Pygmalion Effect (Or the Self fulfilling prophecy)Areas such as business can benefit from 'cross-fertilization'
with other areas of human activity.
In the early 80s I attended a wonderful workshop in Bombay , built around this theme.
I am writing from memory , so the details could be sketchy.
The centre piece of the study was a Project undertaken in the US , to prove this prophecy.(This was later hammered down in educational circles as unethical , since they had played with the lives of unsuspecting children)
Across the US carefully selected students were given feedback on their performances , after tampering with it .
Students who had high marks were deliberately given lower marks , and viceversa on a sustained basis over a couple of years.
And the project ended up proving that students tended to have REAL performances moving towards the levels of grades they were artificially given.
That was one great workshop which helped me in my methods , over a long long period of time.
Eliza Dolittle's words to Pickering ..
Great words.No wonder this was the inspiration for so many Studies in Behavioural Management.You see , really and truly , apart from the things that anyone can pickup (the dressing and the proper way of speaking an so on ) the difference between a Lady and a Flower Girl is not how she behaves , but how she is treated.
I shall always be a Flower Girl to Prof Higgins , because he always treats me as a Flower Girl, and always will , but I know I can be a Lady to you because you always treat me as a Lady , and always will."
Would love to have leads to more information on this subject