Like business teams, rock bands are groups of collaborators, each with a separate function, tasked with creating a sustainable product in the marketplace.
Some of these musical teams stand the test of time, producing success after success. Others are one-hit wonders that disappear overnight.
- Give employees a tall challenge.
- Encourage creativity, passion and celebration.
- Provide teams the tools to leverage conflict.
- Help them define their brand identity.
- Promote independent thinking
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John O'Leary
About John
- 29 years as a management consultant and trainer, working with Peter Senge, Fernando Flores, Werner Erhard and most recently Tom Peters.
- Author of management blog, "Business Lessons from Rock," applying the success qualities of top rock-and-roll bands to mainstream business teams.
- Clients have included: Anglo American, AT&T, Cisco Systems, Commerce Bank, Deloitte & Touche, DHL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Emerson & Cuming, Innovation Associates, Johnson & Johnson, Lincoln Financial Group, Lockheed Martin, MacMillan, Bloedel, Minorco, Pfizer, Schindler, TPI Composites, Teck, Tyler Equipment, US Army, Wellpoint/Anthem, Weyerhaeuser.
- As a musician, singer and songwriter for 18 years before launching business consulting career, shared the stage with more than two dozen Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members and more than 50 other famous rock, pop, blues, folk, or country artists.
Experience
Principal
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John O'Leary & Associates
2005
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Present
- Organizational change consulting, executive coaching, management training, conflict resolution, team formulation and coaching.
- Clients have included Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte, DHL, Teck, Schindler, Lockheed Martin, Cisco, and small hi-tech startups.
Senior Consultant
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Tom Peters Company
2001
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2006
- Organizational change consulting, executive coaching, management training.
- Clients included Commerce Bank, Wellpoint (Anthem), Lincoln Financial Group, U.S. Army.
Independent Consultant
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John O'Leary
1994
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2000
- Organizational change consulting, executive coaching, management training – usually in engineering, mining or manufacturing environments.
- Clients included AT&T, Minorco, Anglo American, MacMillan Bloedel, Weyerhaeuser.
Director of Training
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Innovation Associates
1993
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1994
- Ran the department responsible for production of leadership workshops conducted by IA co-founder Peter Senge and others.
- IA pioneered the body of concepts and methods of "learning organizations" on which Senge published his landmark management bestseller, "The Fifth Discipline."
Director of Marketing, Senior Consultant
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Synergy Associates
1985
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1992
- Organizational change consulting, executive coaching, management training – in addition to marketing and selling.
- Consulting clients included Digital Equipment Corporation and Tyler Equipment.
Musician, Songwriter, Singer
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John O'Leary
1967
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1985
- Shared the stage with more than two dozen Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members and more than 50 other famous rock, pop, blues, folk, or country artists.
- Played in – or fronted – a dozen bands as a pianist, guitarist, or drummer, plus studio session work. (Usually the business manager for these bands also.)
- Still performs, solo and with bands, but only part-time.
- Also ran for U.S. president in 1984 and wrote a book about it, "The Running Game," which was excerpted in Harper's.
Education
Yale University
Studied philosophy, psychology and Ancient Greek, but left after three years to play for a rock and roll band, 1968
Publications
- Blog, "Business Lessons from Rock," listed by HR World as one of "The Top 100 Management and Leadership Blogs that All Managers Should Bookmark."
- Book, "The Running Game," New York Zoetrope, about O'Leary's U.S. presidential campaign in 1984.
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