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1. Adaptation, improvisation and
organisation
2nd Annual People Conference
Peter Cook
22 May 2014

2. 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

3. PART 1 – The Music of Business

4. Music and Business – Parallels
Business
Creativity
Clients,
Customer,
Stakeholders
Structure
Music
Improvisation
The
Audience
Score

5. Leaders get the balance right
Creativity
Clients,
Customers
Stakeholders
Structure

6. Professor Adrian Furnham on
Music and Leadership
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7. The Leader’s job
Create enough structure (score) to move
people 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

8. Leadership and Jamming
Balance ‘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

9. A music lesson
12 intervals in an octave
Conventions of harmony etc.
You can bend or break
conventions

10. Improvising within 12 notes

11. Jamming in practice:
‘2000 Scouts at the Gaybar’
Improvisation
The
Audience
Score

12. Improvisation in Jazz
Tal Wilkenfield – Bass Supremo

13. PART 2 – Adaptive
Organisations

14. 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and drop or remodel out of date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

15. Strong cultures:
Creatures of Habit in Rock and Business

16. Adaptive cultures:
Breaking away from the recipe
AND keeping your audience

18. Featured in
Further Reading
Human Dynamics and The Academy of Rock
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19. The Academy of Rock and Human Dynamics
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22. Coming up
Peter Cook performs at London’s Borderline
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