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Managing and improvising: lessons from jazz

Managing and improvising: lessons from jazz Offers a model of leadership development based on the metaphor of jazz improvisation. Examines the meaning of improvisation as applied to jazz and shows how managers’ lives are similar to that faced by jazz improvisers in that they often face problems which are unstructured and ambiguous. Shows how the metaphor can be applied to other areas of organizational innovation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Career Development International Emerald Publishing

Managing and improvising: lessons from jazz

Frank J. Barrett
Career Development International , Volume 3 (7): 4 – Dec 1, 1998
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Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
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1362-0436
DOI
10.1108/13620439810240719
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Abstract

Offers a model of leadership development based on the metaphor of jazz improvisation. Examines the meaning of improvisation as applied to jazz and shows how managers’ lives are similar to that faced by jazz improvisers in that they often face problems which are unstructured and ambiguous. Shows how the metaphor can be applied to other areas of organizational innovation.

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Career Development International – Emerald Publishing

Published: Dec 1, 1998

Keywords: Leadership; Learning; Metaphors

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