I had the honor and privilege of speaking at the TEDx in Santa Barbara on 11-11-11 and I thought I would share it here.  My talk was titled "Breathing Together - Leadership Lessons from Musical Ensembles", in which I draw business leadership and team management analogies from the world of classical musical ensembles - specifically orchestra conducting and chamber music. The first 2/3 of my talk draw analogies from the first episode of Keeping Score - which gives behind-the-scenes looks at…

... and why I love having a subscription!

My first subscription with the San Francisco Symphony was when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley.  Thanks to a great discount, I was able to enjoy live, classical music on a regular basis during the season.  However, it wasn't until quite a few years later that I began to fully appreciate an important benefit to subscribing: the discovery of music I hadn't previously known.  

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