
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


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. Today's guest 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.
It is a pleasure to welcome the author of: Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz, Frank Barrett, welcome to the show.
More about Frank here: https://www.yestothemess.org
By The Innovation Show4.9
5252 ratings
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. Today's guest 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.
It is a pleasure to welcome the author of: Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz, Frank Barrett, welcome to the show.
More about Frank here: https://www.yestothemess.org

385 Listeners

2,681 Listeners

1,460 Listeners

1,091 Listeners

156 Listeners

128 Listeners

9,157 Listeners

168 Listeners

177 Listeners

5,573 Listeners

1,328 Listeners

519 Listeners

634 Listeners

166 Listeners

1,429 Listeners