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Leadership Jazz
Leadership as Art
A great guide for people in power
Leadership Jazz was written 13 years ago, before the avalanche of books about leadership created a glut on the market. The book uses leading a jazz ensemble as metaphor for leadership. Rather than managing people to complete tasks, DuPree provides valuable insights that guide you to inspire people while still helping them to improve their work. It offers advice on how to lead creative people (the most challenging and delicate of skills), but most importantly, it will turn your work into a more creative endeavor.
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Leadership Jazz
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 07/19/2008)
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Advice from DePree on how to lead creative people
Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people is requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure.
- Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.
Be vulnerable to real surprise.
Be wary of incremental changes--they replace creativity and real innovation
Creative people are loyal to an idea and appear to be nonjoiners.
Don't demand unreasonable personal or corporate loyalty.
When you have real innovation, don't compromise.
Set the example for how to live with eccentricity.
Creative people need diverse experiences to do their work.
Creative people need constraints.
Creative people need to work with others of equal competence.
