Majorities seldom vote to change. A small group of accountable leaders and the creative persons involved must take the risk. A leader sets an example for openness and imagination and acceptance. Learn to live constructively with eccentricity. A leader will let it be known that relationships with creative persons are important, that creative persons are at the heart of the organization.
Creative persons work well in the ethos of jazz.
After that, it's up to the players to be disciplined and free, wild and restrained. Jazz band leaders know how to integrate the voices in the band without diminishing their uniqueness. It matters a great deal how the leader starts the process. In 1977, Herman Miller built a manufacturing facility in Bath, England, which won the Financial Times award for the best industrial building of the year. Nicholas Grimshaw, the architect, said at the time that the spirit and quality of the building could never have been achieved without the poetry and constraints in the brief given him by Herman Miller.