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  • Research Summary

Improvisation

My research focuses on how teams and individuals improvise. Since my days as a jazz trumpet player, I have been fascinated by how groups and individuals perform novel actions in real time. My research investigates these improvisational processes in three... View Details
  • 2011
  • Article

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett
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... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Strategic Change; Jazz; Jazz Mindset; Improvisation; Innovation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizations; Creativity; Strategy; Auto Industry; Banking Industry; Bicycle Industry; Computer Industry; Consulting Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Education Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Music Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Retail Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Japan; Taiwan; Europe; Asia
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  • winter 2002
  • Article

Strategy As Improvisational Theater

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Keywords: Strategy
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  • 24 Apr 2024
  • News

What Managers Can Learn from Jazz Improvisation

  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Video

What Managers Can Learn from Jazz Improvisation

  • 15 Jul 2014
  • News

Cool heads improvise in crisis and calm

  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance

"It Takes Two: Improvisations in Negotiations," Valley told alumni that successful negotiations result from a solid understanding of the individuals involved as well as of the process through which the interactions evolve. "At HBS," she... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 14 Feb 2014
  • News

Q&A: Michael Wheeler on the importance of improvising

  • 2000
  • Working Paper

It Takes Two: Improvisations in Negotiations

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Angela Keros
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The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World

Mr. Wheeler presents a fresh and dynamic approach to negotiation, one that challenges the static assumptions of win-win and hard-bargaining models. The simple truth is that negotiation cannot be scripted and people cannot dictate what other parties will say or do any... View Details
  • 2013
  • Book

The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World

By: Michael Wheeler
A member of the world-renowned Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School introduces the powerful next-generation approach to negotiation. For many years, two approaches to negotiation have prevailed: the "win-win" method exemplified in Getting to Yes by Roger... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation
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  • September 2002
  • Article

Improvisation and the Logic of Exchange in Embedded Negotiations

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Angela Keros
Keywords: Negotiation
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Creativity

My second line of research focuses on creative improvisation in organizations.  For instance, in a chapter of the Routledge Companion to Creativity (with Teresa Amabile), I explore how emerging research on improvisation in organizations... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

book excerpt The Swing Of Things From Chapter 6, The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World By Michael Wheeler Paying heed is one aspect of improvising. Comping is another. Being provocative is a third. When... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Creativity, Improvisation, and Organizations

By: Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile
Although the literatures on both organizational creativity and organizational improvisation have been expanding in recent years, the links between these literatures have not been deeply explored. This chapter explores those links to create a conceptualization of... View Details
Keywords: Body of Literature; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Research; Creativity; Theory
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Negotiations

My third line of research, on negotiations, also focuses on the improvisational nature of group processes. In one paper (with Kathleen McGinn and Elizabeth Long Lingo), I test the relationships between communication media (face-to-face vs. electronically mediated),... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2013
  • News

Why Your Boss Should Leave You Alone

  • 21 Oct 2013
  • News

How To Agree

  • 09 Apr 2015
  • News

How to Negotiate Nicely Without Being a Pushover

  • 12 Aug 2021
  • News

How To Talk Gooder