Have you seen the movie "I, Tonya"? I recommend it—but it’s not for the faint of heart. It begs the question, how well are you playing the game of life? For those of you who missed seeing the original 1994 Olympic drama play out and haven’t seen the biographical film...
My friend Joyce (thank you!) recently wrote and mentioned The Blue Ocean Strategy and got me thinking about how this business strategy and can be applied to musicians. As detailed in the widely popular book by Kim and Mauborgne, the Blue Ocean Strategy focuses on how...
MONDAY BYTES — May 11, 2015 Preview: on Tues. June 2, I'm presenting a First Tuesday workshop in NYC for Chamber Music America. For a topic, I'm tackling "How to Engineer Your Next Career Breakthrough." If you're free and can come, it would be great to have you there!...
MONDAY BYTES — August 11, 2014 Jullien Gordon's TED talk on "side hustling" millennials and why it's dangerous to have just one source of income is especially applicable to musicians. Granted most musicians have multiple income streams and project-driven careers: so...
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 - October 29, 2012 A few weeks back I sat in on a professional development session for grad students in an opera program: they were about thirty bright, talented and accomplished young singers. One of the things the speaker did, as an icebreaker, was have...
MONDAY BYTES - April 30, 2012 After attending last week's Rethink Music conference in Boston, with its focus was on entrepreneurship, I wanted to pass along some of the highlights. I heard a terrific keynote by Seth Godin and an excellent session with the President of...
MONDAY BYTES - January 16, 2012 Do you have a good excuses for not getting started on that project or venture you've dreamt about? This short video from Derek Siver, the founder of CD Baby that challenges our assumptions. I'm a big fan and you can find more of these...
MONDAY BYTES - June 27, 2011 Last week I got a chance to hear Pomplamoose play live in Boston to a sold-out crowd at Berklee’s Red Room as part of the band’s first East Coast tour. Pomplamoose is the YouTube phenom, the quirky indie music duo with...
