When you watch live video recordings of jazz legend Miles Davis, he walks among the assembled musicians on stage during performances, guiding the focus or center of gravity of the music that they collectively create; he performs leadership. As one’s belonging gets more distributed in networks, relations become key to achieving collective creativity. Leaders are challenged to develop within their teams the capability to act and respond as one entity greater than the sum of their parts — to sound with one voice.
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Learning to Lead Collective Creativity from Miles Davis
Posted January 21, 2021 in Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies
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Professor Daniel Hjorth, a Senior Consultant with the Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies practice, is the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Professor at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy (MPP). Prior to this position he was Acting Professor at Växjö University (Sweden), a driving force of entrepreneurship research in Scandinavia.
At CBS, Hjorth is the… Read More
Robert D. Austin is a Fellow of Cutter's Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies and Data Analytics & Digital Technologies practices. He is a former editor of Cutter Benchmark Review and a regular speaker at the annual Cutter Summit. Dr. Austin served as a professor on the faculty at Harvard Business School for more than a decade, and then as Professor of Management of Innovation & Digital Transformation at the… Read More
Shannon O'Donnell Hessel is a Senior Consultant with Cutter's Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies practice. She is Associate Professor and Director of the Studio@CBS at Copenhagen Business School. Her research focuses on collaborative creativity, innovation management, and the role of aesthetics and arts-based practices in processes of business value creation. She coauthored, with Cutter Fellows Robert D. Austin and… Read More
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