I'm often asked what it takes to create a successful music career. The truth is, it depends on the musician's readiness. Is your music career headed in the right direction? Are you ready to make real change? I'm asking because I find that many of us are fooling...
When you consider your career and opportunities in life, where do you see that power resides? Who has the power? It's all too easy to see the gatekeepers, or "higher ups" as powerful — the competition judges, the grant selection or search committee, to the boss who...
MONDAY BYTES – May 27, 2013 There's interesting connections between artists, entrepreneurs, that beg the question of how creativity is brought to fruition, how we make things happen. Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneur and academician who is recognized...
MONDAY BYTES – June 10, 2013 I recently attended an immersive 4-day training program for entrepreneurship educators—I invested 4 full days (and evenings) and all of my attention. It was an excellent program and in almost every session we were asked, "What concrete...
MONDAY BYTES - August 13, 2012 Happens all the time: talented, hard working people find themselves stalled in their projects (and in their careers). These are bright, ambitious people with good ideas and plenty of energy. But they are stymied: overwhelmed and unsure...
MONDAY BYTES - June 18, 2012 Let's talk failure. It's often the elephant in the room when we consider careers. And it's fear of failure that prevents us from taking on career challenges. Paradoxically, it's fear of failure that can motivate us to do our best. It's a...
MONDAY BYTES - January 16, 2012 My good friend Florrie (thank you!) pointed this out to me recently, a hard truth about how coaching and professional development REALLY works. We'd been emailing about what moves people to action, and she wrote, "Did anyone ever cajole...
MONDAY BYTES - June 13, 2011 Where's your focus: what are you seeing? Some of us are forest people (big picture) and some are tree people (mainly seeing what’s immediately in front of us). Many focus primarily on immediate or urgent items on our To-Do lists. We may be...
