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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

Improvisation in JazzTal Wilkenfield – Bass Supremo

PART 2 – Adaptive Organisations

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“Helping others perfect new habits and drop or remodel out of date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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