The Ignorant Maestro: How Great Leaders Inspire Unpredictable Brilliance

Conductors face the ultimate leadership challenge: command a complex organization in real time before an audience, not once stopping or starting over. For the great conductor, leadership is an art; he gives direction without saying a word. But the leadership techniques of a maestro do not apply only to the symphony. Far from being specifically geared toward classical music aficionados, The Ignorant Maestro is for anyone seeking to improve their leadership skills. Appealing to the universal need to find harmony, Itay Talgam observes the leadership styles of six great conductors and presents listeners with six faces of leadership based on those conductors' styles.