Max DePree

American businessman and author; longtime executive at furniture manufacturer Herman Miller and author of books on leadership, including Leadership Is an Art.

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  1. 1. Leadership Jazz

    Using the metaphor of an ensemble, the book portrays leadership as collaborative, improvisational, and service-oriented: leaders create space for others, listen well, encourage diverse voices, and practice humility and stewardship. It stresses trust, responsibility, moral clarity, and the development of people and community over command-and-control authority. Through brief stories and aphorisms it shows how balancing structure and freedom enables creativity, growth, and long-term organizational health.

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