Bøger af Frank J. Barrett

Hvad kan Duke Ellington og Miles Davis lære os om ledelse?Ledere i dag skal være eksperter i improvisation. Ligesom jazz-musikere skal de kunne hæve blikket fra nodebladet, have gehør for gruppens dynamik og skabe plads til både samspil og solo-optræden. Det handler om at turde gribe chancen og den gode, improviserede idé, hvor end den opstår. Dygtige jazzmusikere har netop dette mod.I denne øjenåbner af en bog viser den erfarne jazzpianist og professor i virksomhedsledelse, Frank J. Barrett, hvordan den improvisatoriske „jazzmentalitet" og de færdigheder, der følger med, er essentielle for et effektivt lederskab. Med inspirerende historier om store jazzlegender som Miles Davis og Sonny Rollins og eksempler, der spænder fra produktionsvirksomheder over militæret og til high-tech, præsenterer bogen en helt ny model for ledelse og samarbejde i organisationer – en model, der favner både kompleksitet og forandringer.Yes to the mess er engagerende og indsigtsfuld læsning og et lærestykke i samarbejde og kompleksitet på en sjælfuld jazzbaggrund.

The essays cover topics such as the adoption of contextualism as the appropriate world view for psychology, the establishment of narrative psychology as a major mode of inquiry, and the rejection both mechanism and mentalism as suitable approaches for psychology.

What Duke Ellington and Miles Davis teach us about leadershipHow do you cope when faced with complexity and constant change at work? Heres what the worlds 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 dont dwell on mistakes or stifle each others ideas. In short, they say yes to the mess that is todays 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.