CEO: Jazz Leadership Project; Co-Director: Omni-American Future Project; Host: Straight Ahead: The Omni-American Podcast
Joined December 2010
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Jun 8
Jazz doesn't teach leadership per se so much as reveal it.
At our last workshop, a participant listened to one song and answered with a poem she invented on the spot. The room went quiet.
That's Big Ears. That's soulful listening.
Essay and poem here:
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Jun 6
A jazz elder was once told they had achieved mastery.
Their response? "I'm a life-long learner." 🎵
That's the whole framework in a nutshell.
The M.A.S.T.E.R.Y dimensions of leadership:
• Maturity — aligned values & behavior
• Autonomy — freedom within boundaries
• Shared Sensibility — mutual attunement
• Transformative Wisdom — right action in the moment
• Expertise in Execution — skill with poise
• Reverential Alertness — soulful listening
• Yieldability — flexible, generative outcomes
Mastery isn't a destination. It's a lifelong quest.
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May 26
The last survivor from the famous A Great Day in Harlem picture 🙏🏾
May 26
Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
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May 26
Sonny Rollins, gone at 95.
I once asked him how he improvises. He said: learn every rudiment, then get on stage and forget it. Let the spiritual take over.
"When I play my horn, the music plays me."
Master the craft. Then trust it enough to let go.
Here's my interview from 2010, republished four years ago: tuneintoleadership.com/newsl…
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May 25
18 years married to my love and partner in life, Jewel, yesterday.
Years before the wedding, I thought I'd lost her. So I made her a special cassette tape and put a love song performed by Cannonball Adderley on my answering machine.
She came back.
The leadership on which our work is built started there.
Ever make someone a mixtape? 👇 tuneintoleadership.com/newsl…
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May 25
Thanks to my partner Aryeh Tepper for highlighting my essay in the latest edition of The Omni-American Review on how the thought of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray grounds my deracialization efforts.
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Turning to the work of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, @gregthomas22 confronts “the scourge of... racialization” that has “poisoned American life from before the nation’s… founding." In Vol. II of The Omni-American Review...
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May 11
Miles to Coltrane, who couldn't stop once a solo got going:
"You don't have to play everything you know in every solo."
He also reportedly told 'Trane to take the horn out of his mouth.
We learned this the hard way, pitching our JLP business.
We were not over-prepared. We were overplaying.
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Composer Dan Asia explores connections between Abraham Heschel and classical music, Cage's 4'33", his new opera, "The Tin Angel," Moses as the greatest listener in history, and more
In Vol. 2 of The Omni-American Review...
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May 5
"I want to create something beautiful."
That single phrase from our bassist, Corcoran Holt, stopped a room full of Google leaders. 🎵
Because beauty and good aren’t soft ideas. They’re north stars.
• Beauty invites aspiration
• Good anchors purpose
• Together, they transform how teams create
What would shift if your next project brief started with: “Let’s make something beautiful”?
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#EnsembleMindset #Leadership #PurposeDriven
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Issue #2 of The Omni-American Review is LIVE
With Wynton Marsalis, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, @gregthomas22, @AmsterdamLost and more
Link to the journal & @omni_american's "The Omni-American Tradition: An Affirmative Alternative to Resentment" can be found in the comment, below
Apr 28
My latest, for The @Omni_American_ Review.
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Apr 27
Drucker said the modern organization should sound like a jazz combo, not a symphony.
Bennis said the leader has to give up the "omniscient and omnipotent fantasy."
MIT's David Autor now says AI itself is the jazz soloist.
If the machine can solo, what are humans for?
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#AI #Leadership
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