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As management theory has changed direction during time, so has music a long tradition of different approaches. According to the classical music tradition, a scale is a hierarchical stairway which most often consists of seven pure tones in either major or minor, with a keynote as a basic condition. In a classical view a piece of music must express a certain scale and finish at the keynote.

Some musicians are convinced that new pieces of music is to be created in an incremental way, an improvement of existing approaches, based on above conditions. Other believes that new music can only be created in a tense intersection between music traditions and approaches. In the meeting of different approaches it’s often impossible to separate the principles from the different approaches; instead the meeting is an expression of best practice across approaches. In some of these mixed traditions (ex. blues, jazz and African music) the so called ‘blue tones’ appear as an expression of distorted constellations and innovative improvisation with for example no respect to the classical scale of tones and with no specific keynote. In blues the melody can be singed in minor while the accords is played in major, which gives an exiting tension of blue tones in the music, an approach that many modern traditions has adopted. But in spite of this anarchistic approach and artistic degree of freedom, each piece of music is often expressed in a certain dogma way, where the composer follows a more or less conscious plan and common accepted rules and norms in the creation of the musical expression.

Like this mixed music approach LinKS Advice composes new knowledge in a tense intersection between members, and the events and teams are compounded to create the best conditions for innovative improvisation among members and for composition of new knowledge. With the common Wharton principles in mind; the thinking in syntheses, the mental models, the scenarios and personal experience, each member in LinKS Advice contributes with unique and distorted qualities, which in the right constellation creates the blue tones.

Which qualities do you recognize as most important in creating blue tones?

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