The System of Composing a Piece of Music

I asked John Woodall this question: I want to jump to composing a piece of music. I think it’s more of a system-type thinking approach that you’ve got this grand idea, and you look at this big picture, but then you’ve got to start writing this single note to start out with something. It’s like Read More …

Statistics lend themselves to the Theory of Music

Statistics though, in my mind, lend themselves to the theory of music without the soul, scales and modes without feeling said my podcast guest, John Lawrence Woodall. He also furnished me the following quote: Architecture can be said to be frozen music. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Our podcast, Can Studying Music help your Lean Read More …

To Optimize a System, Dance to the Music

Pattern Recognition: A key to Lean Thinking Composers read and see groups of notes, patterns of notes, and notes in relation to other notes. Architects see spaces that bring people and their experiences together with the patterns they develop through structure. Statisticians view numbers and data as meaningful representations of people’s actions. It is these Read More …

Can Studying Music help your Lean Enterprise

Did you know that Dr. Deming was a composer? In a recent podcast,  A New Approach to Lean – Robert Fritz, Robert told me: By the way, I think Deming was probably the senior-most wonderful innovator in this area and I’d like to point out that he was a composer. Well, he was and Drucker Read More …