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9 Business Links · HALTON HILLS · Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Book Review Courtesy of Halton Hills Library Click: The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage with People, Work and Everything We Do By Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman ISBN: 978-0385529068 making tiny adjustments to your performances magine you are the second violinist in a while you navigate each person's quirks. There is world-famous string quartet. Tonight you're no conductor so you have to resolve every issue performing in a sold-out concert hall. The that comes up among you and decide together murmur of the audience turns to silence as the how to interpret a particular piece of music. You house lights dim and the stage lights put you and succeed beyond other "professional" quartets the other three musicians in the spotlight. because you click as a group. The first violinist must be a Here's the interesting part: quartets strong performer, but you, as the that run more like traditional second violinist, must support and businesses spent less time arguing, harmonize with the first. At the same but each member remained more time, you must blend with the violist resentful that his or her vision for and the cellist. Each of you must be interpreting a given piece of music a strongly characterized individual wasn't accepted by the group. and yet, you must play upon each During performances each musician other and upon the work in perfect would tend to revert to their harmony. interpretation, so the sound wasn't What makes a string quartet a big as cohesive or polished to the success? If you think it's purely audience. They didn't sell as many musical ability, then you'd be wrong. tickets or albums because they It turns out that researchers discovdidn't really click. ered that your success in a quartet Ori and Rom Brafman's Click is has more to do with group dynamics. packed with stories and research that uncover You why we find ourselves "in the zone" and clicking obviously need musical ability, but to make it with others. You don't have to leave this to big, you really have to click as a group. chance. Group dynamics is just one of the five The authors of Click put it this way: You're accelerators Click will show you to help you either flourishing or just scraping by. create more moments where everything seems to When it comes to business or assigning project teams this is a crucial point. You might be fall into place. You probably don't play violin in a string tempted to keep relationships purely professional quartet, but you will certainly find some useful and separate business from pleasure. 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