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Rock-and-Roll Leadership: How to Manage Your Team Like a Band Meredith Ochs Broadcast Journalist, Author, Musican Sterling Publishing, NPR ©2018 Birdeland LLC

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Rock-and-Roll Leadership: How to Manage Your Team

Like a BandMeredith Ochs

Broadcast Journalist, Author, Musican Sterling Publishing, NPR

©2018 Birdeland LLC

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Rock-and-Roll Leadership

What is it? What do rock stars do?• Think creatively• Stay relevant• Lead!

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Rock-and-Roll Leadership

What do rock stars lead?• A band• Their industry• Culture

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Rock-and-Roll Leadership

Why talk rock-and-roll at Accelerate!?

• Lots of common ground with trucking, at least on the driving side:

• Both are a lifestyle, not just a job.• If the wheels aren't turning, you're not earning (i.e.

why classic rock bands are still on tour).• Dispatchers vs. tour bookers.• Women in Trucking and women in rock: the “7%

challenge.”

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Rock-and-Roll Leadership

Why rock-and-roll instead of standard leadership metaphors (pro sports, military, animal kingdom etc.)?• 21st century calls for creative thinking. Somewhere,

someone is working to disrupt your business, probably from outside of your industry.

• Music biz was disrupted early, survivors adapted quickly.

• New workforce: Gen Y & Z have a different approach to work and work-life balance. R-n-R leadership may help you attract and keep top talent among them.

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Part I: Rock-and-Roll Woman

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Aretha Franklin: Keep an Eye on Emerging Trends, Talent, and the Competition.

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Aretha Franklin: Keep an Eye on Emerging Trends, Talent, and the Competition.

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Aretha Franklin: Keep an Eye on Emerging Trends, Talent, and the Competition.

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Aretha Franklin: Keep an Eye on Emerging Trends, Talent, and the Competition.

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Aretha Franklin: Keep an Eye on Emerging Trends, Talent, and the Competition.

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Aretha Franklin: Keep an Eye on Emerging Trends, Talent, and the Competition.

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• Gather information widely.• Pay attention to “the kids.”• Use technology and social media but first learn how

(my mom is on Instagram and it’s not good).

• An additional Aretha thing: loyalty. Have your employees’ backs and they will give a lot more.

“Emerging Trends” Takeaway:

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Wanda Jackson: Conflict is an Opportunity for Evolution, Not a Roadblock.

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Wanda Jackson: Conflict is an Opportunity for Evolution, Not a Roadblock.

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Wanda Jackson: Conflict is an Opportunity for Evolution, Not a Roadblock.

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Wanda Jackson: Conflict is an Opportunity for Evolution, Not a Roadblock.

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• If the culture at your company feels stale to you, it is.

• Always be evolving.• Tap into your “teenage brain” – just enough to

challenge old ideas and discover new ones.• Don’t retreat from a difference of opinion. Pick your

battles, hash it out.

“Conflict is an Opportunity” Takeaway

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Hayley Williams (Paramore) and Shira Yevin: How Do You Show Up?

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Hayley Williams (Paramore) and Shira Yevin: How Do You Show Up?

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Hayley Williams (Paramore) and Shira Yevin: How Do You Show Up?

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Hayley Williams (Paramore) and Shira Yevin: How Do You Show Up?

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Hayley Williams (Paramore) and Shira Yevin: How Do You Show Up?

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• How do you present yourself as a leader?• Are you in a unique position to know it’s time to

make a move?• Risk/reward.• Changing culture pulls up other women into the

industry.

“How Do You Show Up” Takeaway

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Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads: Leadership from Stage Left.

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Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads: Leadership from Stage Left.

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Tina Weymouth of Tom Tom Club: Leadership from Stage Left.

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Poison Ivy of the Cramps:Leadership from Stage Left.

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Poison Ivy of the Cramps:Leadership from Stage Left.

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• Identifying the leaders on your team.• “Lead singer syndrome” – how to spot it and what to

do about it. • Don’t overlook the hardest workers just because

they’re quietly doing their job.

“Stage Left” Takeaway

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Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders:Tough Love.

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Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders:Tough Love.

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Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders:Tough Love.

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• When is it time to let someone go from your team?• Latitude – when it’s enough.• Destructive behavior.• Antagonistic to a common goal.

“Tough Love” Takeaway:

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Bonnie Raitt:Don’t Wait for Success to Give Back.

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Bonnie Raitt:Don’t Wait for Success to Give Back.

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Bonnie Raitt:Don’t Wait for Success to Give Back.

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• Millennial and Gen Z-owned businesses build giving into their DNA.

• If your company doesn’t, you can.• Team building for a common goal, somethingin

which everyone can get involved.• e.g. OODIA – holiday packages for troops.

“Give Back” Takeaway:

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Tina Turner: Connecting is Everything.

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Tina Turner: Connecting is Everything.

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Tina Turner: Connecting is Everything.

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Tina Turner: Connecting is Everything.

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Tina Turner: Connecting is Everything.

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• Networking is critical. That’s one reason we’re all here!

• It’s even better to start when you’re already in a power position.

• Events: Industry, alumni, social, entertainment.• LinkedIn, social media groups.• Most crucially, connect with your co-workers, your

team.

“Connecting” Takeaway

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• One of the most extraordinary group endeavors is playing music.

• How to make your team more harmonious by identifying the “players,” i.e. each person’s skills and foibles, and how to manage them.

Part II: The Band Dynamic

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The Drummer

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The Drummer

• Does the heavy lifting.• Rarely gets the spotlight.

• Best Approach:• They really have more to do than everyone else.• Give them or get them the support they need.

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The Bassist

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The Bassist

• Often overqualified for the position they’re in.• Underutilized, and not happy about it.

• Best Approach:• Work their underutilized skills into the team effort –

have them sing harmony, etc.• Give them autonomy by encouraging them to do a

“solo project.”

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The Keyboardist

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• This is the genius of your team.• Unfortunately, they know it.• Always running late, wisecracking, distracting.• Best approach:• Mix “high potential” with “lower potential” employees

so they don’t have to constantly prove their genius.• “Jedi mind trick” them into being on time. They’ll still

feel like they’re on their own time, and you’ll get them in when you need.

The Keyboardist

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Lead Guitarist

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• The introvert.• Capable of flash but tends to communicate through

work rather than words.

• Best approach:• Lateral moves – get out from behind the producer’s

booth and get onto the studio floor to work things out.

• Make suggestions as a peer, not a supervisor.

Lead Guitarist

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Lead Singer

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• The extrovert• Makes the most noise about doing the least work.• Despite high profile, is generally not your best

ambassador.• Best approach:• Keep them in a group context, integrate their

projects so they don’t drift off.• Monitor as a team and individually to see who’s

actually doing what.

Lead Singer

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Now your team is in tune!


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