adaptation, improvisation and organisation - hr directors summit slide deck
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Adaptation, improvisation and organisation
2nd Annual People Conference
Peter Cook
22 May 2014
Knowing me, Knowing you
Chemist : 18 years in Pharmaceutical R&D
Academic : 18 years teaching MBA’s and SHRM
Consultant and Author : 18 + years in business
CIPD Council Member
Peter Cook MBA, MRSC C.Chem, FCIPD
www.humdyn.co.uk www.academy-of-rock.co.uk
PART 1 – The Music of Business
Music and Business – Parallels
Business
CreativityClients,
Customer,Stakeholders
Structure
Music
Improvisation The Audience
Score
Leaders get the balance right
CreativityClients,
CustomersStakeholders
Structure
Professor Adrian Furnham on Music and Leadership
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The Leader ’s jobCreate enough structure (score) to movepeople to action
Too much structure and innovation never starts!
Encourage creativity (improvisation) within the acceptable range of the business culture
Too much creativity and innovation never finishes
Bring all three elements into harmony
e.g. Wikipedia, First Direct
Leadership and JammingBalance ‘score’ (structure), ‘improvisation’ (creativity) and ‘audience’ (customer)
Learn on the job – from successes and mistakes – Leaders create true learning organisations
Using emotional intelligence to tune into others and respond to signals
A music lesson
12 intervals in an octave
Conventions of harmony etc.
You can bend or break conventions
Improvising within 12 notes
Jamming in practice: ‘2000 Scouts at the Gaybar’
Improvisation The Audience
Score
Leadership redefined:
“Helping others perfect new habits and drop or remodel out of date
ones”
Source: Sex, Leadership and Rock’n’Roll
STOP in the name of Leadership
Strong cultures:Creatures of Habit in Rock and Business
Adaptive cultures:Breaking away from the recipe
AND keeping your audience
IMPROVISATION IN ACTION:THE EXAMPLE OF PRINCE
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