“If you can’t bank the money bank the learning“
Andrew Missingham is a drummer, musician, producer and the co-founder of B+A, the fastest most creative management consultancy in the world. B+A work with organisations in the cultural, for profit and social sectors helping them change for the better. They have worked with an extraordinary range of organisations, many of which you may well have heard of. These include Punchdrunk, Microsoft, Nike, the Barbican, Converse, Aveda, The Financial Times, Google, intel, Clinique, the LA Philharmonic and Patreon. Andrew is a problem solver, a voracious reader and a creative thinker on the arts, media, business and many other things besides.
During our wide ranging conversation we get into:
- How to build credibility in new industries
- Music as a route for learning and a vehicle for natural curiosity
- The liberation of understanding your own limitations
- How to be the fastest most creative management consultancy in the world
- Sharing your process and the importance of nuance
- A creative approach to protecting IP
- The difference between privacy and anonymity
- Coaching as a style of leadership vs mentorship
- Systematising thinking
- Listening with all available senses
- Tolerance as the route to understanding progress and unity
LINKS
- Vision Sound Music
- Southbank Centre
- Bernard Herrmann
- Citizen Kane
- Taxi Driver
- Psycho
- Martin Scorsese
- Jude Kelly
- Live soundtrack of Black Orpheus
- Charlie Dark
- Video Game Heroes
- Adam Buxton’s Bug
- The British Council
- Toy Story 3
- You Can’t Stop the Beat – Hairspray
- Belle – Beauty and the Beast
- Yolanda Charles
- Hans Zimmer
- Sting
- Squeeze
- National Youth Theatre
- Performance Arts, Middlesex Polytechnic
- Dr. Faustus
- Help! by Richard Lester
- Pinewood Studios
- Tony Colman, London Elektricity
- Hospital Records
- Gilles Peterson
- Urban Species
- MC Solaar
- Flora Purim
- Airto Moreira
- Sonny Rollins
- Jack DeJohnette
- Charlie Haden
- Serious International Music Producers
- London Jazz Festival
- Antonio Salieri
- Amadeus
- McKinsey
- Bain
- Boston Consulting Group
- Ideo
- Hyper Island
- B+A Blog
- Alex McCorkindale
- Roger Federer
- Serena Williams
- Andre Anderson
- Tom Frederikse
- B+A Anthem
- Sara Robinson
- Clore Leadership Programme
- Laban
- Hegelian dialectic
- A day in the life of…Andrew Missingham – Econsultancy
- Gary Younge
- Ben & Andrew’s Bumper Book of Fun and Games
- The Flying Karamzov Brothers
- Tim Lindsay
- Richard Alston
- Nitin Sawhney
- Katherine Ryan
- Vabihav Chhabra
- Kwame Kwaten
- Music Managers Forum
- The Barbican
- ReWork: Change the way you work forever by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Jansson
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
- The four-hour workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
- Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
- Grayson Perry
- Who Are We? by Gary Younge
- All About Love by Bell Hooks
- The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck
- Keep on Moving by Twyla Tharp
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