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creative companion Please also visit: www.creative-companion.com I was always fascinated about manifestos and the impact they can have. You cannot ‘not brand’. Take the big picture.

Also the struggle and discussions such as - if you should follow all the thesis or just pick out a few - is a big inspiration. Here is mine, I call it the Creative Companion Manifesto

1. Everything a brand or person does will add up to its identity.

2. Be clear about what you are and what you want.

3. Listen to the people. Don’t do literally what people say, observe their behaviour and translat

e it.

4. Get to know all the facts. There never is too much information, only a lack of focus.

5. Everyone is right. Many people, many perspectives. They may all be right, but not necessarily relevant.

6. Best idea wins. Good ideas often come from individuals, it needs teams to make them great.

7. Experiment while working. Try things you have never tried before.

8. You are not alone. Working in a team is fun and helps to understand multiple perspectives.

9. Stick to the concept. Along the way there are a lot of temptations, go your own way. If they make sense, adapt them.

10. Think like a musician. Compose, invent, innovate, orchestrate, prepare, communicate, rehearse, improvise, entertain, listen, play, perform – don’t give a damn. How do you like the Creative Companion Manifesto? Leave a note, comment or reaction to my blog:
http://creativecompanion.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/creative-companion-manifesto/ -5

You may also like the following manifestos:
Reformation, Futurist , Bauhaus, Surrealism, Cluetrain, Repair.

How cool is this? You develop a multisensory product to let people experience your ideas about music thinking, and then ...
27/02/2024

How cool is this? You develop a multisensory product to let people experience your ideas about music thinking, and then someone comes along and uses your product for something completely different. 🤔

o.k. before we dive into our conversation, let’s first explain what the jam cards are. Because that is the product we are talking about today in the Power of Music Thinking podcast.

🎶 The jam cards are a set of 38 inspiration plus six cue cards in the size of a 45, or ‘single record’ as they are also called. They are actually very big cards, approximately five times the size of a regular card deck.

All the inspiration cards have multiple triggers, for example:
a keyword that sums up the essence of the card, and an interesting key visual with music-related snapshots or excerpts from paintings from the Rijksmuseum.
There is also a trigger question to spark and diverge your thinking and an inspirational quote from musicians like Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix or Frank Zappa, and some non-musicians like Florence Nightingale or Steve Jobs. Brilliant quotes that stand out and make you think.
👉 And very unique: every card has a sound trigger you can scan and hear immediately a specific song or spoken word on the Spotify platform.

So, the Music Thinking Jam Cards is an inspirational card set for changemakers, pattern recognisers, innovators, transformers and natural collaborators.

Because we all need extra inspiration, use the jam cards to trigger your ideation session, co-create your purpose, define your design challenge or lay the foundations of your company’s culture or brand story.

For over five years, the jam cards have been available from your local book dealer or online dealers like Amazon. So many creative sessions and brainstorms have been taken with them.

🇬🇧 But today, we speak with Anita Prestidge, an English trainer with experience in theatre, directing, and education.
When Anita picked up the cards, she had another idea of what to do with these cards and developed her own unique method.

So, if you want to speak better 🇬🇧 English 🇺🇸 while using the Jam Cards, connect with Anita online.

Find the podcast on any podcast platform or music thinking .com

If you want to create your own approach with the Jam Cards you can order them at any bookstore or direct at BIS Publishers



Do you want to speak better English while using the Jam Cards? Listen to this podcast and connect with Anita Prestidge.

I don't do Christmas cards (sorry if you have expected one). I send my greetings in the new year on Epiphany day, the 6t...
06/01/2024

I don't do Christmas cards (sorry if you have expected one). I send my greetings in the new year on Epiphany day, the 6th of January and the last day of Christmas.

I have been doing this for 13 years, and it always conveys many reactions and conversation starters with friends.

👈 Look back.
The past year was a whirlwind of growth and opportunities! From speaking engagements at conferences in Germany and The Netherlands to starting as a lecturer at the University of Applied Science in Utrecht for the Creative Business Programme, it's been an incredible journey.

The Power of Music Thinking podcast flourished with 16 episodes featuring remarkable individuals who are also musicians, attracting a growing audience interested in analogies between music, business and society.

Being a guest on three podcasts was an exciting experience, offering a unique glimpse from the other side.

Additionally, conducting workshops and training sessions in Storytelling, Design Thinking Fundamentals, and Music Thinking masterclasses added further layers to this fulfilling year.

👉 Look forward.
But today is the time to look forward to 2024:
I wish you all meaningful epiphanies in the coming year!

🖖 This year's epiphany story is about a shaky business, listening, tuning, playing and performing.
☝ You can read it on the music thinking website!
https://musicthinking.com/a-shaky-business-epiphany-story-2024/

It is always special to be the first or the last. Let's close the year with the last episode (of the year) of the Creati...
29/12/2023

It is always special to be the first or the last.

Let's close the year with the last episode (of the year) of the Creative Engagement Podcast hosted by Daniel Mandel.

Daniel Mandel Music

After a year of podcasting (I did 16 episodes in 2023 on the Power of music thinking podcast as a host, and being a guest on several other podcasts), this episode brings it together in a compact way, thanks to Daniels' questioning and listening skills.

It is, by the way, a great introduction to Music Thinking. If you have ever wondered what it is, this is a really good start.

So, if you want to hear a compact take on , , and how this goes together with and , be our guest.

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3s7D7wMvwijXe87cs297RM?si=dd24cefb6bdb4035

Apple podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-engagement-creative-companion-christof-z%C3%BCrn/id1604629717?i=1000639898560

The end of the year epsiode is out with short snippets of all guests this year.This year, we had 15 episodes, and virtua...
21/12/2023

The end of the year epsiode is out with short snippets of all guests this year.

This year, we had 15 episodes, and virtually, we travelled to Berlin, Braunschweig, Zürich, London, Oslo, New York, West Virginia, Nashville, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Singapore, Tokyo, Mumbai and New Zealand.

What were the themes?
The overarching themes were , and how music can be used as an analogy to explain the world and work more meaningfully together.

We had some unique themes and zoomed into subjects like of data, and

listen to The Power of Music Thinking on musicthinking.com or any platform where you listen to podcasts

https://musicthinking.com/rewind-2023/

What are you music thinking on Christmas? Get a T-shirt as a conversation starter. Buy now to get them on Christmashttps...
12/12/2023

What are you music thinking on Christmas?

Get a T-shirt as a conversation starter.
Buy now to get them on Christmas
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22/03/2023

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Leuke blog over The Power of Music Thinking in managementboek.nl
25/05/2022

Leuke blog over The Power of Music Thinking in managementboek.nl

Wanneer mensen op de werkvloer samenwerken hoor je soms uitdrukkingen zoals ‘dat moeten we beter orkestreren’, ‘alle registers opentrekken’, ‘hier moeten we meer improviseren’, of ‘een beetje jammen’ en ‘in de juiste cadans werke...

04/05/2022

Today we are in New Albany, Ohio. We speak with Paula White, a globally recognised sales leader, leadership coach and author of the book Side B: Remix Your Leadership Style.

We talk about how music can (re)charge the way you are leading and how leaders can work on their behavioural traits based on music principles. Paula shares with us the ten archetypal instruments that are based on a scientific survey. And Paula explains more about the saxophone type that came out of the survey I did before the conversation. All right let’s dive into it.

https://musicthinking.com/finding-your-side-b-with-paula-white/

Side B Consulting Music Thinking Christof Zürn

😍 Love vs 🤑 Money - what about your purpose? Being a member of the Medinge Group I am happy to share our newest research...
17/02/2022

😍 Love vs 🤑 Money - what about your purpose?

Being a member of the Medinge Group I am happy to share our newest research.

Medinge Group has been working with the idea of brands with a conscience since 2005, and in 2021, we initiated an international series of research studies looking at how conscience is understood by consumers, experts, marketing consultants and, in this study, business managers. This PDF, Brands with a Conscience: a Research Study into How Business Can Do the Right Thing and Be Profitable, is the result of that research, with companies around the world engaged with social and environmental issues participating. Click on the image below to read or download.

https://medinge.org/brands-with-a-conscience-a-research-study-into-how-business-can-do-the-right-thing-and-be-profitable/

Brands with a Conscience: a research study into how business can do the right thing and be profitable Medinge Group has been working with the idea of brands with a conscience since 2005, and in 2021, we initiated an international series of research studies looking at how conscience is understood by....

Creative Companion meets Creative Chef a conversation between Christof Zürn and Jasper Udink ten Cate  Listen to the lat...
25/08/2021

Creative Companion meets Creative Chef a conversation between Christof Zürn and Jasper Udink ten Cate Listen to the latest episode of The Power of Music Thinking

In this episode we talk about multi-sensory storytelling with Jasper Udink ten Cate, artist, designer, chef, book author and drummer.

15/07/2021

DIT ZIJN DE EERSTE RESIDENTS VAN DE BASIS!
In mei leek de puzzel bijna onmogelijk, maar na een aantal weken passen en meten zijn de stukjes gelegd; de eerste residents voor De Basis zijn bekend!

De komende tijd stellen we hen uitgebreid aan jullie voor, maar bij deze presenteren wij alvast met trots:

2getherwecre8 | BLACK BOTTLE RIOT | Bram Doreleijers | Cher Ami | Clean Pete | Creative Companion | De Liedjesfabriek | De Staat | Dikke Huisstijl | Drift - Om te dansen - Studio Linksvoor | Fake Flamingo | Foxlane | Jazzy Remix | Jeroen Antoine | Jop van Summeren (opnamestudio) | Kronkel | Martinspeeltgitaar | Mummy's a Tree | Odin - Jason Lemonth | Patch the Sky | Rinus Aarts - Speakerfood | Sina Kia | Sjef van der Heijden - Koarse | Solomon State -Zaffré | SonicWhip | Symafro | Teun van Laake | Thaïti | The Grand Woo | Thijs Schrijnemakers - Orgel Vreten | Waltzburg | WTF - Studio Nog Iets

Summertime, time to get inspired. Here is a list of the inspiring podcast conversations of the last 6 months. Enjoy!    ...
05/07/2021

Summertime, time to get inspired. Here is a list of the inspiring podcast conversations of the last 6 months. Enjoy!

🎷 Your playlist for the summer break 🎧

It’s July, and half of the year is already over. If I could sum up these 6 months in two words, it would be: sounds good.

The journey started with being a guest in several podcasts talking about music thinking, the music thinking framework, the jam cards, creativity, service design, organisational change and branding. And this led to starting a Podcast of my own, The Power of Music Thinking.

I met and spoke with many beautiful minds, experts in their field AND musicians in one or another way. There was a recurring pattern with nearly all of the talks: after we stopped the recording, the conversation went on. It feels like a community of like-minded people, and I feel honoured about this; thank you.

Hier are the links to the conversations on one page to make your summer break inspiring and sound.
smartlink for your podcast service: https://link.chtbl.com/fleQe5kL

The Power of Music Thinking - Podcast

Innovation patterns and improvisation in organisations with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stark, teacher and researcher specialised in organisational and community psychology
https://musicthinking.com/innovation-patterns-and-improvisation-in-organisations/

Blend sound science with sound art to make sound decisions with Steven Keller
https://musicthinking.com/blend-sound-science-with-sound-art-to-make-sound-decisions-with-steve-keller/

A mindset for entrepreneurship, leadership and design with Michael Hendrix from IDEO and Panos Panay from Berklee College of Music
https://musicthinking.com/a-mindset-for-entrepreneurship-leadership-and-design-with-michael-hendrix-and-panos-panay/

Music as a Catalyst for Change with Nifemi Aluko, Founder and CEO of kpakpakpa and author of the book Press Play
https://musicthinking.com/music-as-a-catalyst-for-change-with-nifemi-aluko/

Blockchain Philosophy and Collaborative Transformation for Change with Roy Scheerder from Faebric
https://musicthinking.com/blockchain-philosophy-and-collaborative-transformation-for-change-with-roy-scheerder/

Deep Listening® with Sharon Stewart, creator of sound works, musician, poet, researcher, piano teacher and deep listener.
https://musicthinking.com/deep-listening-with-sharon-stewart/

Expect conversations in the next weeks, will be published bi-weekly on wednesday:
Music and the Brain with Artur Jaschke from ArtEZ
Cross-pollination in leadership with Ilkka Mäkitalo from howspace
The Thrills of business with Padraic McMahon, Hubspot, Ex-Google, LinkedIn


Music Thinking Christof as a guest speaker

Unlocking Your World of Creativity with Mark Stinson
https://musicthinking.com/unlocking-your-world-of-creativity-podcast-1/

Human-Centred Design With Geryy Scullion
https://musicthinking.com/human-centred-design-podcast/

Think Twice! Innovation, Wette und Wandel with Niels Benson
https://musicthinking.com/innovation-werte-und-wandel-podcast-2/

One more thing
If you have a business challenge that needs different perspectives at the same time to solve, please reach out. I would love to help you to listen, tune, play and perform.

Today 19th of May Creative Companion celebrates the 11th birthday and this is the birthday present: The Power of Music T...
19/05/2021

Today 19th of May Creative Companion celebrates the 11th birthday and this is the birthday present: The Power of Music Thinking Podcast with conversations and special editions.

The podcast is for people with a musical heart and a wicked job. We talk about business and about music and what these two fields have in common and can learn from each other.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-power-of-music-thinking/id1566577959

15/03/2021

In der Episode 19 haben wir Christof Zürn zu Gast und wir sprechen über Instrumente, Harmonien, Punk und Free Jazz. Eine zum Podcast gewordene Jam-Session. Hört rein und hört zu. :-)

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12/03/2021

Thanks, AlterContacts for having me on the series.
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In this interview, we meet Christof Zürn, the founder of Creative Companion, a business that helps organizations use creative thinking to create sustainable ...

18/02/2021

Quickly and easily listen to Unlocking Your World of Creativity for free!

Great to talk with best-selling author and global brand innovator Mark Stinson about creativity, business and music thin...
16/02/2021

Great to talk with best-selling author and global brand innovator Mark Stinson about creativity, business and music thinking.

Unlocking your world of creativity: Best-selling author Mark Stinson talks with Christof Zürn about how to Design with Music Thinking.

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