Neil Perkin highlights this video of a talk by conductor Itay Talgam. Talgam compares a variety of conducting styles as examples of leadership and explains how control gets in the way of relationship and creativity.
If you don’t have 30 mins to watch the whole thing maybe you could just skip to 26m35s where he explains that conducting “becomes something else” – and then watch Leonard Bernstein demonstrating it.
If you’re running a meeting in the next day or so, wouldn’t it be fun to try to do what Bernstein does for at least a few minutes and see what happens?
