Orchestra without a conductor: The art of collective leadership

Author: Harvey Seftel
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Publish Date: 2003-06-09
Features: Challenges the pyramid-style hierarchical management and achieves collective leadership to eliminate absolute power. The principles in this book have achieved great success in organizations such as JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Reynolds Executive Search, and Intel. This book demonstrates an unconventional approach to leadership and team building to business professionals through the success experience of the only orchestra in the world without a conductor—the world's greatest orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The Orpheus Program, presented in this book, eliminates the role of absolute leadership and clearly distributes responsibilities to each team member, helping to build a more effective organization, flexible strategic and decision-making systems, happier, more engaged, and more creative employees, and more satisfied customers. Every principle in the book includes clear implementation steps, which have already achieved great success in world-renowned companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Reynolds Executive Search, and Intel.