Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank J. Barrett Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank J. Barrett PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad What Duke Ellington and Miles Davis teach us about leadership How do you cope when faced with complexity and constant change at work? Here’s what the world’s best leaders and teams do: they improvise. They invent novel responses and take calculated risks without a scripted plan or a safety net that guarantees specific outcomes. They negotiate with each other as they proceed, and they don’t dwell on mistakes or stifle each other’s ideas. In short, they say yes to the mess” that is today’s hurried, harried, yet enormously innovative and fertile world of work. This is exactly what great jazz musicians do. In this revelatory book, accomplished jazz pianist and management scholar Frank Barrett shows how this improvisational jazz mind-set” and the skills that go along with it are essential for effective leadership