The Global Roundhouse | Jazz, Business & Education — trains of thought by Jackie Modeste

Skip to navigation
Skip to main content
Skip to secondary content
Skip to footer

Skills Shortage on the Global Stage
Leave a comment
February 6, 2013 by Jackie Modeste

In one of my favorite Foreign Affairs articles, Secretary of State (former) Hilary Rodham Clinton sounds very much like the …
Continue reading

Category: Business, Cultural diplomacy, Education, Governance, International Relations, Jazz, Wynton Marsalis | Tags: Bach, collective improvisation, Cultural diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, fugue, Global governance, Helene Grimaud, Henry Ford, hillary rodham clinton, jazz at lincoln center, Jelly Roll Morton, jobs, MOOCs, Multinational corporation, Paddy Ashdown, skills, swing, United States Agency for International Development, United States Department of State, victor goines
Midday Riffs: Don Tapscott, Knowledge & the Suite Life
Leave a comment
January 26, 2013 by Jackie Modeste

“A blues riff is a brief musical phrase that is repeated, sometimes with very subtle variations…” –Albert Murray, Stomping the …
Continue reading

Category: Albert Murray, Blues, Business, Cultural diplomacy, Education, Jazz, Uncategorized | Tags: albert murray, Back at the Chicken Shack, blues, business, Cultural diplomacy, culture, Don Tapscott, Duke Ellington, education, Hammond B3, Jazz, Jimmy Smith, McKinsey Quarterly, Queen's Suite, Single Petal of a Rose, Sonny Rollins, St.Thomas, Stomping the Blues, swing, University of Toronto
Morning Riffs: Apple & MOOCs
2
January 24, 2013 by Jackie Modeste

Duke Ellington, “It Don’t Mean a Thing” (1943) “A blues riff is a brief musical phrase that is repeated, sometimes …
Continue reading

Category: Albert Murray, Blues, Business, Cultural diplomacy, Education, International Relations, Jazz | Tags: albert murray, blues, business, Cultural diplomacy, culture, education, emerging markets, Huffington Post, innovation, Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs, New York Times, rising costs, Stomping the Blues, tuition
Call-and-Response: the US, Qatar & Current TV
1
January 7, 2013 by Jackie Modeste

In a move that exemplifies his ability to identify and form strategic partnerships – not to mention his business acumen …
Continue reading

Category: Blues, Cultural diplomacy, Education, Governance, International Relations, Jazz, Uncategorized | Tags: Ahmed Shibab-Eldin, Al Gore, Al Jazeera, Alvin Atkinson, Arab Spring, blues, call-and-response, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Cultural diplomacy, culture, Current TV, Democrats, Diplomacy, Doha, governance, hillary rodham clinton, Huffington Post, Jazz, jazz at lincoln center, Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha, john mccain, middle-east, New York Times, Qatar, Reggie Thomas, Republicans, strategy, swing, Time Warner Cable, United States
Big Data, Change, and Swing
Leave a comment
October 10, 2012 by Jackie Modeste

“How Big Data is Different” — by Thomas H. Davenport, Paul Barth and Randy Bean (henceforth known as DBB) was …
Continue reading

Category: Blues, Business, Education, Jazz, Strategy | Tags: Analytics, Big data, business, Duke Ellington, innovation, Jazz, leadership, louis armstrong, Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, Six Sigma, strategy, swing, Thomas H. Davenport
Train Whistle Diplomacy: Blues-Based Jazz & National Identity
Leave a comment
October 1, 2012 by Jackie Modeste

Train Whistle Diplomacy: Blues-Based Jazz and National Identity (47 – 67) Blues and swing, 48 – 51 Blues-Based jazz, 51 – …
Continue reading

Category: Albert Murray, Blues, Business, Cultural diplomacy, Education, Governance, International Relations, Jazz, Strategy | Tags: albert murray, blues, business, Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University, Cultural diplomacy, democracy and human rights, Diplomacy, Duke Ellington, education, governance, Harvard Business Review, innovation, Jazz, jazz at lincoln center, jazz studies, leadership, Mexico, Music, National Identity, politics, Robert G. O'Meally, Spain, Spectrum Journal of Global Studies, strategy, swing, Turkey
The Necessity of Global Swing
1
July 10, 2012 by Jackie Modeste

Swing is a matter of coordination – finding and sustaining equilibrium – a rhythmic flow. The recent G-20 meeting in Mexico …
Continue reading

Category: Blues, Business, Education, Governance, International Relations, Jazz, Strategy, Wynton Marsalis | Tags: Africa, Alan Gilbert, art, Asian, blues, BRIC, BRIC nations, C-Suites, citizens, classical music, democracy, diversity, Egypt, employee engagement, equillibrium, famine, Frederick P. Rose Hall, frontline, G-20, gender, genocide, Homeland Security, Hong Kong, IMF, India, International Monetary Fund, Islamists, Jamie Dimon, Jazz, jazz at lincoln center, Latin America, market segment, Mexico, Michele Dunne, middle-east, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, NYT, Ode to Joy, Ode to Joy Flash Mob, Park Avenue Armory, Peter T. King, Philharmonic, Philharmonic 360, Rose Theatre, saxophone, Scott Shane, South Korea, strategy, Superpower, swing, Taiwan, trombone, United States, virtuosity, Washington, Washington Post, Western dominance

« Older Entries

RT @AJStream: The US state of #Mississippi is considering whether to jail women for stillbirths & miscarriages - ow.ly/lnEXG 4 hours ago
Obama Calls for ‘Moral Courage’ at Naval Academy Graduation nyti.ms/11eXanI @irshadmanji @MoralCourage @BarakObama #moralcourage 6 hours ago
I'm listening to Come Rain Or Come Shine by Dinah Washington on Pandora bit.ly/16BQ6K5 #pandora 1 week ago

Follow @GlobalJackie

Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People Ben Horowitz
Ken Coleman Ben Horowitz
Staying Great Ben Horowitz

Productivity + the calculus of grinding codemizell
{A.V.Clue4U #171} @ 1:50″. Rick Ross }}} macro-economist? codemizell
vocation as avocation. A life exemplified by MCA. codemizell

“Harlequin” – Ivan Lins, Lee Ritenour, and Dave Grusin do mundo4theworld
Marcos Valle – “Mentira” do mundo4theworld
“Brother” – Jorge Ben do mundo4theworld

Live at Zir Zamin Jan. 3rd, 2013 Parade of One
FAQs about Our Current Crowdfunding Campaign Parade of One
My last days of this trip to Southeast Asia. (I’ll be back!) Parade of One

Jazz Mirrors Iran#1: Tehran noreply@blogger.com (Ehsan Khoshbakht)
Thelonious Monk Quintet feat. Steve Lacy noreply@blogger.com (Ehsan Khoshbakht)
Duke Ellington: Jazz Entre Amigos (1985) noreply@blogger.com (Ehsan Khoshbakht)

Follow

Follow “The Global Roundhouse”

Powered by WordPress.com