The Jazz Mindset
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Topics: Agile, Change Management, Manufacturing, Strategy, ProjectsAtWork
Adaptability and creativity are cornerstones to making beautiful music, but how do they apply to strategic execution? They help teams and organizations react to and even initiate change more quickly. Here are eight lessons to drive the jazz mindset, from the art of unlearning to balancing freedom with constraints.
Frank Barrett, accomplished jazz pianist and management scholar, defines the jazz mindset as one that “maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization.” Business leaders with a jazz mindset can move not only themselves, but entire teams through the decision making process with ease.
Whether an organization prefers an Agile approach, a Waterfall approach or something in between, each methodology comes with its own set of rules. But if rules are adopted for rules’ sake, decision-making runs on autopilot with less responsiveness to current market environments. Leaders are best equipped when they develop a mindset approach to their work and they become better positioned to react more swiftly to the ever-changing business climate, regardless of the actual methodology that is adopted.
Classical vs. Jazz, Discipline vs. Agility
In addition to having a fundamental foundation built on project management rules, practices and processes…
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