How do you facilitate the presence in the moment and the openness required to reach those magic moments where great music or ideas thrive? I would be very interested to hear your thinking on the subject. In my mind, I think that we are not fully aware of the value potential to be realized if we can help ourselves and others to be fully present. Maybe because the cost of destroying presence in a non-live situation is much lower? I am thinking that we have been trained for non-live situations where you are allowed to stop and fix your mistakes. As a result, our notion of perfection is to redo something until it is perfect and then move on. In a live situation, the worst thing you can do is to stop. The key in live situations is to not stop.
Working live changes our very definition of perfection. I changes how we lead others, how decisions are made (you can´t stop to ask your boss). In a live setting, the value of being fully alert, open and totally in sync with the context is much higher. But yet, we approach live situations with a toolkit develop for a different setting where perfecting one task at the time is more valuable than being in the moment, being in sync.
How you help people become more present in the moment? What do you see as the key changes we need to make in our education and training to help prepare people for a live world where you have to listen and a) adapt to the context, b) make the context adapt to you or c) change context? 
Tennis or jazz: if you stop, you lose.
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