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This paper illustrates the core principle of COINs (collaborative innovation network) of rotating leadership by the example of Jazz musicians, who take turns grooving together. These musicians are exemplars of team members seamlessly transferring the leadership role from one to the other, leading to a “flow” experience of superb quality for their audience. As we show, so-called honest signals from Jazz can play a key role for organizational development to create an “organizational groove.”
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Schmid, D.C., Gloor, P.A. (2019). “Twelve-Tone Music Reloaded”: 12 Lessons in Rotating Leadership and Organizational Development from Jazz. In: Song, Y., Grippa, F., Gloor, P.A., Leitão, J. (eds) Collaborative Innovation Networks. Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17238-1_13
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