The Guardian thinks you can run a Business by learning from Jazz.

Miles Ahead of Sales Targets

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"Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Art Blakey are widely recognised as three of the greatest jazz band leaders of the 20th century"

I agree wholeheartedly.

"In brief But did you ever consider they might be role models for entrepreneurs?"

... what?

The article is a pretty long read, however the gist of it is that non-music professors (in this case, Deniz Ucbasaran, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School) who read a few articles in Wikipedia can come up with an award winning theory about how entrepreneurs can learn from listening to and reading about the great jazz leaders.

It's a nice attempt to be creative, but ultimately I can't imagine this being taken very seriously.

What if you had someone like Ornette Coleman or John Coltrane or Albert Ayler on board?

What if I let you hear this:



What Miles can be in the studio or stage cannot be transformed into a board of directors.

Peace.