Thread by @onunoreis

📚 Finished reading one of the coolest management books I've read in a while. In the book, Frank Barrett explores the relationship between #jazz music and #leadership styles. There's a lot you can learn from legends, like Duke or Miles Davis. Some notes🧵

goodreads.com/book/show/1900…

1/ Mastering improvisation
Leadership styles that embrace improvisation don't need to be chaotic. Good leaders should embrace it as a way to let go of the illusion of certainty and control, and act sooner rather than later. Great #jazz music was created because of good improv

2/ Affirmative competence
Learn while doing, listen deeply, and get in the groove. It's ok not to have all the answers, believe good things will happen, and work your way with your teams into experimentation and progress frameworks. Something good will come out of it 🎺

3/ Embrace errors and mistakes
Good products and progress can, and most certainly will come out of mistakes. By embracing mistakes as learning and development opportunities and creating psychological safety within your teams, you will achieve the right place for "jamming".

4/ Minimal structure - maximal autonomy
Focus on giving the right guidelines, and finding the minimum, but flexible, structure that allows experimentation and autonomy. Instead of anarchy, create small structures and directions and let the jam roll

5/ Learn by doing and talking
Moments to share insights and learning challenges are perfect to create serendipity - or the occurrence and development of events by chance in a beneficial way. Coca-cola, penicillin, Post-it, micro-ovens, and tons of others were built this way

6/ Comping or the art of generous listening
In jazz, comping are rhythms and melodies with what other players accompany a solo melody. Every member should have the opportunity to lead, but never in isolation. Create authentic followership by becoming great at comping 🎹

7/ Nurture "Double Vision"
Design just enough structure that constrains and guides the "soloists" to discover new possibilities. For a good "Double Vision", diversity is key here. Think of leadership as a design framework instead of constant decision-making activity.

This was a great read! So many hours spent reading with good coffee and jazz in the background 🎷
Thanks, @rmdmac for the suggestion 🙏

Last but not least, I've inspired this thread on some other reviews and tools online:
- sergiocaredda.eu/inspiration/bo…
- yestothemess.org/more-about-me
- @goodreads and conversations with @OpenAI Chat GPT3

Looking forward to discuss these insights with any other book readers or just curious people 😊

Btw, @blinkist I think you're missing this one out! Happy to help.

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