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A good orchestra plays in a wonderful harmony - if the conductor manages to bring together dozens of eccentrics. The principle can also be transferred to enterprises, says the musician Christian Gansch. In Newspaper ONLINE interview betrays his best tips for managers. Newspaper ONLINE: Mr. Gansch, you have just published a book, "From Solo to Symphony: What companies can learn from orchestras. The thoughts you have to explain. Christian Gansch: In dozens of individualists orchestra work shoulder to shoulder alongside, and the daily up to six hours. You can not just going bad, and therefore a bit slower. You can not say when Brahms on the program: Today, I am more Mozart. And there is no office, the man behind zumacht. How under these conditions can be a symphony, how to make the individual skills of employees are fully exploited, such cooperation must be perfectly organized - the companies can learn.
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conductor Gansch: "The drum must sometimes long for their solo appearance wait"
Newspaper ONLINE: An orchestra, for example, with a car manufacturer to compare seems somewhat strange. Gansch: Is it did not. The public often has the impression that only an orchestra conductor - plus a willenlose mass, which he use. In fact, an orchestra just as a company departments … Newspaper ONLINE: … each instrument groups? Gansch: Exactly, wood and brass, strings et cetera. And each department has its own self-understanding. At festivals as they remain mostly in companies among themselves - because the musicians from different backgrounds. Trumpets, horns and trombones are often more robust natures, in a brass band music in the country have begun. Strings do not come from a rare bürgerlicheren milieu, if only because a professional violinist from 50,000 to 100,000 euros costs. But some parents give their life insurance or savings. Newspaper ONLINE: Still, the division of labour in a company is much more complex. In the orchestra there are many musicians and a Chief: the conductor. Gansch: False. The division of labour is similarly complex as a group. Department heads have the visions of the conductor and, above all, independent departments implement. For example, they conduct with head and instrument their people in those parts of the document in which the conductor with other voices is employed. They are also responsible for the implementation of technical aspects, such as the bow strokes of Geiger. The depend on the vision, depending on the pace of new requirements. A complex voting process, which also departments of a company car lot to learn.
Newspaper ONLINE: And how? Gansch: I have seen many companies that operate autonomously departments or even fight. The metaphor of the orchestra makes it clear how ridiculous it is: Finally, it is a joint product. The orchestra must twelve Geiger for a perfect arc line would also uncomfortable and difficult times, so that breathing technique to the solo flute fits the same melody plays. Imagine, the violinist would say: What takes care of us the solo flute? She is alone, we are to be zwölft. Should it persist halt the air. Newspaper ONLINE: Communication is the central theme of your book. From your time as a violinist and conductor, they have learned unusual: They plead for open einzugestehen antipathies. How will it work in practice? Gansch: In many companies, there are subtle pressure that all must be somehow sympathetic. In orchestras, the human realities rather accepted. If the humor of colleagues do not like, you do not have vorgaukeln his jokes in the break to find funny. They go easy, and nobody looks funny. Only then can the professional respect for him retain the much more important. This artificial harmony pressure brings nothing. Aufgestaute aggression will only lead to bullying. Newspaper ONLINE: But the jokes his colleague is not only in the break, but also in a business meeting. Since I can not just go. Gansch: If you can openly say: 'Get Your jokes later, and let us work', it is much easier to deal with this antipathy. I know this from experience. I have nine years as a violinist with a colleague played on a console. We liked us very much. Nevertheless, we had great concerts together - because we both knew that we even after such experience is certainly not drink beer together. We have even said so, it was good. Newspaper ONLINE: They call even if it seems impossible, a conflict auszutragen is open provocation necessary. Gansch: Employees are sometimes too timid. An example: In a meeting tells for the fifth time the same. You can not step forward, it takes hours. Because it helps just to be off the table and say: enough is enough now, as you yesterday, the day before yesterday and the day before also telling. Newspaper ONLINE: This may go backwards if the boss does not like that. Gansch: If I am so leaned out the window, I noticed first: colleagues who preceded me such a step encouraged, wanted nothing more behind them know. But at the same time the consequences were not as dramatic as expected - because obviously was: There is genuine passion pressure and the need not to be profiled. That was easy as the response to a trumpeter, after his solo no longer simply einkriegt according weiterbläst. If this image I used in seminars, incidentally, usually smiling nine out of ten participants, and one is red. Newspaper ONLINE: In your book geißeln a false understanding and harmony the dictates of the team spirit … Gansch: … because I believe that the concept of team is often misunderstood. If an employee of a meeting on an issue before spraying ideas, the others feel the need to keep pace. That is nonsense. The orchestra is this: The drum sometimes long wait until their large range. In the meantime, they heard a distinctive violin solo, then one of the trumpet, and yet they would never the idea from the beginning with start. She knows her moment in which then the other into the background. It is crucial presence in the right moment. Newspaper ONLINE: The moment at which the drum is off, but in the notes - this is not so. Gansch: It is only in the notes. In a score, there are ten or fifteen votes. Composers usually write instructions for the whole orchestra out: forte, mezzoforte, piano. So the conductor the interplay of forces structure, and calls on the leadership. He has a large group of cello say: This is a great melody, because you zwölft to play. But I am the gentle movement of a clarinet major. Then, twelve people quietly play the clarinet in order to hear. Newspaper ONLINE: Follow musicians such instructions forever? Gansch: If the cellos are very confident of what they are doing, they may thunder. Then the conductor or interrupt a vigorous movement. It may not be the law of the jungle. Ultimately, cooperation can not command ability. Every individual must have the awareness that the customer a consistent product. Newspaper ONLINE: How much should the leadership personality - in the orchestra and the company? Gansch: The conductor is the great line, the vision. That is what the musicians. Sometimes my decisions against the will of a minority to enforce. However, it added: There are not those conductors, most with the baton and its mane herumwedeln, führungsstärksten. Unfortunately, in the art increasingly more Showtyp, where the orchestra asks: "Why the jumps so rum: The piece brings nothing." In the economy, I see similar developments. My book is therefore also a plea for inhaltsorientiertes action and activism against cheap. The interview was conducted by Anne Seith