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What’s Your Promise PLUS?

Interesting post over at Trump University today about going 1% further. I like it because the author, Jeff Burrows, asks the following question: What is your promise to your customer? I’ve spent a lot of time in meetings discussion mission, vision and value...

Getting Ready To Live

People in the West are always getting ready to live.- Chinese proverbUnderstand that the joy is in the journey. Then plan the journey with that in mind and enjoy every moment, challenge, success, failure, benefit and loss as a sign that you are alive.

A Career Manifesto

Although some of the statements are a stretch to apply to music, the last three of this Gapingvoid post are powerful statements to live and work by: 8. Don’t believe what the organization says it does. Its practices are its real policies. Study what is rewarded and...

“The Arts” vs. the “Real World”

Just in case you don’t believe that you are pursuing a career in a BUSINESS I pass along this quote: “When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.” – AnonymousThink...

Happy New Year

Happy 2007! I pray this is the year you pursue your dreams with clarity, purpose and a plan. And although working out, reading more or eating better might be a part of it, I’m talking about your heart’s dreams. The dreams that cause your soul, the core...

How to Create Customers

The title of this post might strike you as odd, but I mean it quite literally. Customer (from Wikipedia): “someone who makes use of or receives the products or services of an individual or organization. The word historically derives from “custom,”...