You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 27, 2012

I love jazz and I think it a perfect metaphor for leadership. It’s more like jazz. In fact, it is perhaps the jazz of life, (that stuff that requires spontaneity and improvisation), that transforms the vanilla of a well-ordered enterprise into something spiced with possibility and potential for greatness. How much we imagine.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“Let’s Consider This a Learning Opportunity” Instead of singing the “Woe Is Us” blues, why not jazz things up by turning team setbacks into learning jams or post-project celebrations where you celebrate the effort and the learning?

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leaderCommunicator

AUGUST 18, 2017

This week you’ll read articles on how to involve your team in creating vision and strategy, how to deconstruct resistance to change, 7 surprising leadership lessons we can learn from jazz, how to get ahead and make steady progress, and 6 critical skills all workers will need in the next decade.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 17, 2010

→ October 17, 2010 · 11:53 pm ↓ Jump to Comments Leadership…and All That Jazz Warren Bennis once said, ‘I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. It’s more like jazz. However, as with jazz, improvisation, on its own will not create a joyful noise.

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Decker Communication

OCTOBER 13, 2022

U nexpected : No one was expecting a speech on Jazz music, especially for a business school graduation ceremony. S tories : He tells the story of Jazz music and how it’s rooted in close collaboration and appreciation of fellow musicians, honed by principles and foundations developed by Jazz leaders like Louis Armstrong.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2014

It’s jazz — strategic improvisation. When confronted by “unusual uncertainty” as Ben Bernanke put it , leaders need to be able to think and act adaptively.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

What jazzed you up in 2017? Your personal plan for 2018 begins with: Exploring ROE (Return on Energy). Exposing things that didn’t work. What sucked the life out of you in 2017? Forgetting about… Continue reading →

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2014

My favorite book is Leadership Jazz. He used the leader of a jazz band as a metaphor for creating a work environment in which improvisations were valued yet the collection of performers created a pleasurable outcome. Max was for many years the CEO of Herman Miller, the company that manufactured my desk chair.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2018

Not surprisingly, jazz musician and professor Stephen Asma wrote in a New York Times opinion piece , “The key to successful improvisation is getting your self out of the way. Impromptu speaking,” explains Humphrey’s, “requires the same discipline that the best improvisational actors and jazz musicians use.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2012

Yes to the Mess : Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank J. Grady and James D. Lead with a Story : A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire by Paul Smith. How to Be Exceptional : Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths by John Zenger, Joseph Folkman, Robert Sherwin Jr.

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LDRLB

APRIL 19, 2013

He’s been a jazz pianist for over 30 years, and performed with several improv theater groups in Chicago, as part of his research into jazz and improvisational theater. He then worked for 6 years as a management consultant in Boston and New York, advising large corporations on the strategic use of information technology.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

A Grammy-winning producer, he has performed with Grammy-winning musicians as a jazz bassist. He co-founded an arts organization which merged with the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. Kabir Sehgal was a vice president in emerging market equities at J. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the London School of Economics.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

You don''t get ''jazz'' with control.only with freedom. After seeing Carl Størmer''s story at BIF9 and an intense & casual chat with my friend, and daughter''s jazz voice teacher, Kim Nazarian of the New York Voices , I have a very different view of management, leadership, creativity, innovation and the music of life.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

On her first day, jazz day, Beckett explained the importance of conditioning. . He was a middle-school kid who was starting to like tap dancing because it was “all rhythm and didn’t require much upper-body coordination.”. One day, everything changed. Jane Beckett took over as head of dance at Robert’s school when he was in the 9th grade. .

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 23, 2023

Positive psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who coined the term, has compared it to playing jazz. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. He told Wired : “[It’s] being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

When we watch the games, we’ll see exciting improvisation—fancy dribbles, lobs and dunks–but like great jazz, this exciting basketball will be grounded in strict adherence to the fundamentals. Individual Accountability and Growth: There are few endeavors where participants are so quick to admit mistakes.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 27, 2012

You’re all jazzed about YOUR impact. Independence: Successful leaders never succeed alone, they inspire others. Passion may motivate you to focus on your actions while neglecting the power and importance of others. Effective leaders, on the [.].

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Alan Webber BIF BIF9 Carmen Medina Culture Innovation Jazz Leadership Livestrong Networking RCUS Saul Kaplan Strategy Virtues-Values Whitney Johnson' #RCUS inspires and transforms our world in ways we may know now, later or may not ever realize. Here are a few BIF9 Storytellers who inspired me.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It’s like a jazz musi-cian who learns how to play his own instrument and then makes sure to leave room for the rest of the ensemble to contribute their notes. You say what you mean, you don’t make anybody wrong for what has happened, and you create the space for a learning dialogue. Let the music begin.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2021

If you’re an entrepreneur type, you routinely get jazzed up about taking a new path and dealing with whatever comes your way. What happens inside when you consider all that it takes to get from here to there? Do you like jumping in to see for yourself what today will bring? You get stuck people moving forward.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

Increasing shareholder value, company market share, or worker productivity just doesn’t jazz the average worker. In all my years as a consultant, I haven’t either. It doesn’t matter what your company peddles. There is often a vast disconnect between what is important to a company’s executive body and what is important to front-line workers.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2017

A single professional engagement, usually of short duration, as of jazz or rock musicians. The first reference became widely used in the 1920's as jazz became more popular in America. Let's start at the beginning and develop a common understanding of what the Gig Economy is and what it is not.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Ths might involve a new logo, or simply jazzing up the logo with new, simpler design that works best for a smartphone app too. Branding & Design. Ultimately, a branding redesign , or at least a lateral movement, is important when trying to renew your initiative.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 5, 2011

In specific, he’s jazzed about what he calls “compensation learning.” I just left an unplugged session at the World Business Forum with Malcolm Gladwell. About 40 people listened and asked questions. Gladwell is interested in learning theory, it’s central to his next book. Learning that results from compensating for a weakness.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2017

7 Surprising Leadership Lessons We Can Learn From Jazz by Laura Montgomery. Yes, There Are Leaders In America from @JohnBaldoni. A leadership expert says every business team needs a Jobs and a Wozniak. Eight Guidelines to Involve Your Team in Creating Vision and Strategy ” by @JesseLynStoner. Team Building Toolkit-25 Tips! via @justcoachit.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 21, 2018

Switchers are excited to make a major change, but many of us aren’t so jazzed about the sacrifices that often come with it—like taking a salary cut, dropping levels on the organizational chart, or relocating to another city. Sometimes we are unable to let go of what is keeping us trapped, even when achieving freedom could be simple.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

Listen to jazz music, the only art form Americans have ever invented, and a painless way, Wynton Marsalis reminds us, “of understanding ourselves.” Do not get stuck in one place. Visit Yellowstone or Yosemite or even Appomattox, where our country really came together. Whatever you do, walk over the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank J. Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank J. Resources Mentioned in This Episode. For more from Dave Stachowiak, listen to the Coaching for Leaders podcast and follow him on twitter. Read the 3 Risks of Authentic Leadership post .

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

  Dr. Taylor crafted a 70 year vocation as a jazz performer and educator.    For twenty years he was the jazz correspondent on CBS Sunday Morning.    He began as the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser for jazz in 1994 and took the number of jazz concerts there from four a year to 150.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2012

Yes to the Mess : Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank J. The Advantage : Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Patrick Lencioni. The End of Leadership by Barbara Kellerman. Resilience : Why Things Bounce Back by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy.

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Decker Communication

JULY 20, 2021

Quinn Snyder of the Utah Jazz referenced having a short memory like goldfish – a reminder to stay buoyant and optimistic – a key life lesson from the show. The show isn’t just entertaining and inspiring, it also offers an abundance of life lessons.

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Experience to Lead

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Jazz can teach us a lot about inclusive leadership. Jazz musicians have no option but to stay engaged in what they are doing. Jazz music is real-time, in-the-moment innovation. By cultivating a sense of cultural intelligence, leaders are then able to harness these individualized experiences that lead to high performance.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If it were a musical genre, adhocracy would be jazz.” “In the digital age, an adhocracy can be put together in a plug-and-play, Lego-like way, well suited in fast-moving, fluid circumstances where you don’t know what you’ll need next. Robert Waterman on Adhocracy.)

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2011

Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz took a teaching position at Stanford in 1986. Sometimes in watching the success of others, we lose faith in ourselves. There is but one cause of failure and that is a man’s lack of faith in his true self,” observed William James.

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David A Fields

JUNE 8, 2016

How do you jazz that up so dishwater concepts sparkle like champagne and your breakthrough insights transfix readers and listeners? It’s easy to be a snoozer. To communicate killer ideas in presentations and articles that are utterly boring. Dull as lichen inside a rock.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

Manage your team like a jazz band. Great clarification: “ The creative process is essentially an execution process, not a eureka moment. Other rules include: A part-time game changer is preferable to a full-time seat filler. Net income is an opinion, but cash flow is a fact. Avoid venture capital unless you absolutely need it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

We’re jazzed and honored that Marshall Goldsmith wrote a smashing foreward. These are the most important ten minutes you’ll spend to make your meetings achieve results. Exciting news, the book I’m David Dye and I are publishing is off to the AMACOM for publication this Spring.

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