How to improvise? cooperate culture #16 with Adam Lawrence

Adam Lawrence is many things. He is a facilitator, speaker, author, professor, consultant, educator, singer, actor, improviser, comedian, director - and the list goes on. Maybe that is one reason why Adam knows so much about improvisation. And as an experienced improviser, Adam agreed to actually not prepare anything for this podcast episode, and we simply improvised. What came out of it was...well, you judge for yourself.Our improvised conversation took several interesting turns. We talked about Voldemort's horcruxes, what scrambled eggs are called in Spanish, and the role of Star Wars rebels in the business sector. Adam shared what his colleague Markus Hormeß has to do with dead horses, why the innovation of a burger has nothing to do with food, and what he learned from Renatus Hoogenraad about how to deal with big egos. And finally, I also got a live taste of Adam's improvised thoughts on fear, rebellion and harmony.I got to know Adam as an outstanding expert and unconventional thinker when it comes to using principles of so-called "applied improvisation" to help people collaborate better. My main takeaway from our discussion is that improvisation is indeed very useful at work - not always, but more often than one might think. As Adam says, we all know how to improvise. The question is whether we are ready to use and develop that skill in the right situations.If you want to know more about Adam and his work, you can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstjohnlawrence/  or visit his company page http://www.workplayexperience.com. You might also meet him at http://globaljams.org if you want to join a highly innovative community of problem-solving and creativity. In addition, here are some of the resources that we mentioned during our conversation: The improv show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKg_ZFByYTINckLG76cjUEgThe Applied Improvisation Network: https://www.appliedimprovisationnetwo...The book "Everything's An Offer" by Robert Poynton: https://robertpoynton.com/do/books/Adam's co-authored book "This Is Service Design Doing": https://www.thisisservicedesigndoing.comSome of Edgar Schein's ideas: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...The IE Business School Madrid: https://www.ie.edu/business-school/Augusto Boal's "Theatre of the Oppressed": https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339...This podcast is brought to you by emtsev cooperation. Ready to make work a better place? Visit https://www.emtsev.com.