Stephen H Baum Leadership

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Among the extraordinary and inspiring outside speakers was Itay Talgam, a famous orchestra conductor who used his profession as a parable for company leadership. Showing videos of several conductors conducting, he asked whom we would hire to lead our organizations. It was incredible instructive. Here are my personal notes from the experience. If you wish to see a sample, find one of his clips on YouTube such as

Conducting as Leadership

My personal notes are as follows:

– connect without diminishing the musicians (which happens when you are too directive)
– create the idea and invite interpretations
– be ready to exert strong control as an exception
– create a climate in which people are self-managed within vision and mission
– be in the moment including sometimes experiencing and freeing your emotion (propagates emotion in others)
– to whom to check you are conducting correctly? Mozart is not available for guidance or feedback
– customers, associates, leadership are your equivalent to audience, musicians, conductors
– no one is perfect and each had good stuff (that includes the conductor), so act accordingly

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