Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

Ripe for change in Louisville

Tue, Nov 11, 2003
by Drew McManus
The Louisville Orchestra has seen a bad year. They nearly filled for chapter 7 bankruptcy, but were saved during the 11th hour by a $465,000 pledge by the Home Builders Association of Louisville, contract concessions by the musicians, and fundraising efforts by the board. Since then, orchestra leadership has abandoned ship. Management is currently without
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Lack of interest

Mon, Nov 11, 2003
by Drew McManus
Problem: I recently learned that an Executive Director of a small orchestra left her position to work as a development director for managed care facility. How are these two businesses related? They aren’t. A leading problem in this industry is there are too many managers that have no real stake in the medium of performing
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Inaugural Blog

Mon, Nov 11, 2003
by Drew McManus
As an avid reader of my colleague Andrew Taylor’s blog, The Artful Manager, I would like to start this piece with a quote from one of his writings: “The world doesn’t work the way we thought it did, the way our common knowledge thinks it should, or the way our training prepared us for. Either
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