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  • Essay / Using jazz as a model for maintaining success...

    Jazz is a form of music characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a steady or powerful rhythm. It relies on the ability of musicians to constantly create and add new elements that constantly revolutionize the sound. 21st century businesses are, in some ways, doing the same thing. It strives to highlight the ability of its employees to create and innovate consistently within the company. In fact, one can use jazz as a model for sustaining a successful business. Jazz music, like most forms of music, is based on the fundamental principles and structure of classical music. Musicians are continually adding and creating new elements for others to build upon. Today's business is very similar. In most cases, companies base their structure and business practices on the classic hierarchical organizational charts of the early days of capitalism. But as industries evolved and technology evolved, businesses were forced to adopt and innovate, much in the same way that jazz evolved from classical music. Jazz is a skill that arises from a musician's investment in constant practice over several years. A musician always seeks to create and build from previous failures and successes. A jazz musician seeks that perfect harmony between the operational excellence of classical music and that spark that we hear in jazz. In business, leaders are looking for the same thing. They seek that perfect harmony between the operational excellence found in the classic business practices of capitalism and that spark that comes from innovation. This spark, or sweet spot, is a skill that is developed and cultivated over years of practice and investment, and that can be found in companies that have this experience like Google, Apple, ... ... middle of paper.... ...this bill appears to protect those who have been victims of these lawsuits. Multinational companies have also taken note of the rise of these patent assertion entities, and they too are being attacked by these trolls. Countries like Japan, Korea and Taiwan have already started creating their own intellectual property companies to protect themselves from foreign trolls. Computer products are made up of thousands of patents, making them a target for trolls, and multinational companies are moving quickly to create a good defense. We hope the law will prove beneficial to all types of businesses. These absurd lawsuits to enforce patents will become more difficult to prove in court, and we hope that the amount of money and time wasted will be used to create new technologies and prevent small tech companies from going bankrupt..