The Curious Leader

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My guest today is Horst Michael Schaffer, in 2003 together with Heinrich von Kalnein took over the artistic leadership of Jazz Big band Graz. He is said to be "A brilliant musician and composer with a sensitive sense for storytelling, beauty and emotion … " - The Guardian (UK) who composes and leads "Music for the heart and the feet …" - Colin Towns, Composer (UK)

“… one of the most forward-thinking enterprises in recent jazz.” This is the appraisal that the well-known British composer and musician Colin Towns strikingly made in All About Jazz, about the new sound of the JBBG, with the postscript: “…music for the heart and for the feet”. Our priority was not to simply lay a claim, at any price, to having produced something new. It has been about catching the moment, the here and now, in the 21st century and to live it out. Without cutting ourselves off from current trends, to allow the ideas they engender to have free run and to build on established traditions in a self-evident, natural way. The present moment can serve as a collecting pool in which the increasingly rapid developments in musical trends and artistic impulses can effectively mix, free from restraint and blinkered vision.

John says yes, there is a marvelous positive development. Quite some organisations reflect together with their leadings teams and employees. They also get help to monitor and facilitate the implementation of a positive culture.

In this episode we discuss the importane of confidence, the German concept of Zuversicht (believing in a positive outcome) and the importance of mastering the art of listening in order to cultivate your curious leadership and be a humble and human New Leader

In my book I name the importance of creating a field where courage, trust and confidence are cultivated as essential future skills for successful New Leaders. John and I discuss this episode on courage, trust and - as we speak business and thus the need of decent results - control as fertile soil, fertilizers or better culture enhancers.

With the equation of wine that need to be cultivated we start out to the first of four insightful episodes on curiosity, trust, success and business impact.John Ireland works with leaders of all sorts. He is a organisational psychologist with a big focus on mindfulness, respect and humanity. Together we developed a format on learning how to implement attitude both from the psychological as well as the emotional aspect. Both lead to an embodiment with great subsequent impact in the field of authenticity and thus leadership.