Comments on: Why your company should be a rock band

By: transitvans

transitvans — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:28:09 +0000

Our school sets out to be ‘like a business’. Maybe I should share with them this concept of companies being rock bands!

By: Noterat | Den digitala parkbänken

Noterat | Den digitala parkbänken — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:45:33 +0000

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By: Henriette Weber

Henriette Weber — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:51:48 +0000

Hi Alexander, it means the world to me that you like my eBook – it has been a work in process and has been thought over so many times – starting out as one shape of a conference talk – ended up as an eBook and as another conference talk at next09. I am thinking about doing a version 2 adding more insights and more on “why it is important to think your company into something else than a company”.. I really love the rockband metaphor – the fun part comes when you ask people WHAT kind of rockband their company is… Im rage against the machine of course =)

By: Robyn [Atlassian]

Robyn [Atlassian] — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:56:19 +0000

We definitely use that analogy at work. Our IT guys are our 'backstage crew' or roadies, they even have their own t-shirts. In our performance ratings the highest ranking you can get is 'Rockstar' status :) Helps to have a company logo that can be transformed pull off an afro

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By: BunnygotBlog

BunnygotBlog — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:34:58 +0000

Hi –
I just found you and I have to say my business is more the rock band still in the garage. OK, that is not all together true. I have made great progress but still small favorable potatoes with lots of spice.Smooth sailing emm, more like a fast motor.Traveling at such high speed only sees where she is going and not where she has been.
Great article

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:31:10 +0000

Mark: Dancing is a great metaphor too – as is music in general.

Frode: Everyone knows drummers are the most messed up guys in the band :o)

By: Frode H

Frode H — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:26:53 +0000

Btw: Loved the “return on involment” statement in this e-book. That is the core of what I try to teach young people entering their first job. If you engage in the people around you, the people around you will engage in you…It’s almost Karma baby! :)

Keep rocking.

By: Frode H

Frode H — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:17:09 +0000

Nice.
Our company is not a rock band, not even a TV-soap…I do use the metaphor of a sailing ship on a journey a lot, because it works. But back to music. We are not a folk song band either. Not classical… Hmm maybe we are a techno pop fabricated group with geeks creating great music and pretty girls to “sing” and promote the CD cover… yepp..

No, seriously, thank you for providing this link, like the idea of the rock band metaphor. But I think we might be having some serious problems with the drummer…

Cheers.

By: Stress Training Mark

Stress Training Mark — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:46:07 +0000

Thanks for this,

The metaphors we use are powerful – I’ve compared business to dancing and romance before:

http://integrationtraining.blogspot.com/2009/01/business-is-romance.html

All the best from Brighton,
Mark