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Yes to the Mess - Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz (Hardcover)
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What Duke Ellington and Miles Davis teach us about leadership How
do you cope when faced with complexity and constant change at work?
Here's what the world's best leaders and teams do: they improvise.
They invent novel responses and take calculated risks without a
scripted plan or a safety net that guarantees specific outcomes.
They negotiate with each other as they proceed, and they don't
dwell on mistakes or stifle each other's ideas. In short, they say
"yes to the mess" that is today's hurried, harried, yet enormously
innovative and fertile world of work. This is exactly what great
jazz musicians do. In this revelatory book, accomplished jazz
pianist and management scholar Frank Barrett shows how this
improvisational "jazz mind-set" and the skills that go along with
it are essential for effective leadership today. With fascinating
stories of the insights and innovations of jazz greats such as
Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, as well as probing accounts of the
wisdom gleaned from his own experience as a jazz musician, Barrett
introduces a new model for leading and collaborating in
organizations. He describes how, like skilled jazz players, leaders
need to master the art of unlearning, perform and experiment
simultaneously, and take turns soloing and supporting each other.
And with examples that range from manufacturing to the military to
high-tech, he illustrates how organizations must take an inventive
approach to crisis management, economic volatility, and all the
rapidly evolving realities of our globally connected world. Leaders
today need to be expert improvisers. Yes to the Mess vividly shows
how the principles of jazz thinking and jazz performance can help
anyone who leads teams or works with them to develop these critical
skills, wherever they sit in the organization. Engaging and
insightful, Yes to the Mess is a seminar on collaboration and
complexity, against the soulful backdrop of jazz.
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Imprint: |
Harvard Business Review Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2012 |
First published: |
August 2012 |
Authors: |
Frank J Barrett
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Dimensions: |
244 x 165 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
202 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4221-6110-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
General
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LSN: |
1-4221-6110-2 |
Barcode: |
9781422161104 |
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