TY  - CHAP
AB  - How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices leaders can initiate to extend, strengthen, or transform “ordinary capabilities” (Winter, 2003) into enhanced improvisational competence and dynamic capabilities. We call this leadership logic the “jazz mindset.” We draw upon seven characteristics of jazz bands as outlined by Barrett (1998) to show that strategic leaders of business organizations can enhance dynamic capabilities by strengthening practices observed in improvising jazz bands.
VL  - 19
SN  - 978-1-78052-022-3, 978-1-78052-023-0/0897-3016
DO  - 10.1108/S0897-3016(2011)0000019005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0897-3016(2011)0000019005
AU  - Bernstein Ethan S.
AU  - Barrett Frank J.
ED  - Abraham B. (Rami) Shani
ED  - Richard W. Woodman
ED  - William A. Pasmore
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices that Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation
T2  - Research in Organizational Change and Development
T3  - Research in Organizational Change and Development
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 55
EP  - 90
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -