To celebrate the end of the old year and welcome in the new, I'm "re-purposing" a favorite tool I blogged about a few years back. It's adapted from Dallas Travers' terrific "Year in Review" exercise. Here is How to Engineer Your Better 2019 arranged in twelve simple...
Let's talk about how you connect with people. Let's look at a musician's e-newsletter — one aimed at fans. Check out the approach that a talented multi-instrumentalist-composer-educator uses in his newsletter. This is Rob Flax and the Art of the E-newsletter —...
MONDAY BYTES — July 22, 2013 My MacBook died this last week—no files lost, all was backed up—but getting a new laptop gave me the opportunity to re-think my screen saver. The images we choose to save on computers and cell phone screens are important: our eyes will...
MONDAY BYTES - July 16, 2012 This weekend I was at the NYFA/NYU Artist as Entrepreneur Performing Arts Bootcamp, a terrific professional development program crammed into 2 packed weekends. The opening session, led by Entrepreneur Mark Golden of Golden Artist Colors,...
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...
President Obama’s tagline phrase, "winning" the future, has been bothering me lately, and I don’t think it’s just my inner grammarian. I tried applying this idea to individuals and organizations, and the problem is this: “winning” implies a zero-sum game. But in fact,...
