Checking In On Charleston

The 2/18/2009 edition of the Charleston City Paper published an article by Greg Hambrick that does a good job outlining the current situation at the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. According to the article, the organization projects a major cash flow deficiency sometime in March and is pressing musicians to reduce the number of salaried members. We’ll be looking at this situation closer at the end of next week, in the meantime, Greg’s …

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Putting Out Some Fires

Yesterday’s article generated a good bit of direct email messages from managers across the country. Some enjoyed the article and found it enormously useful and others were very upset. In the case of the latter group, the issue mentioned most often could be summed up as displeasure over focusing on the negative without offering solutions otherwise. I can understand where that would bother some but at the same time, I did publish an article a few weeks ago entitled A Meaningful Approach To Concessions which functions as the antithesis to yesterday’s post…

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Scorched Earth Governance In 10 Easy Steps

Since Adaptistration’s inaugural post in 2003, the business has witnessed a number of destructive conflicts between stakeholders over which course of action the organization should engage to best navigate challenging environments. Consequently, it doesn’t take long to begin identifying patterns and although they are filled with the latest trendy bits of business idioms, the underlying patterns remain mostly unchanged. In a sense, it is the same old pig with a new shade of lipstick, all of which can be summed up in the following 10 steps…

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Friday Thoughts

If you haven’t done so already, this is your last opportunity to complete the 2009 Reader Segmentation Survey and be entered for a chance to win a free three month subscription to The Naxos Music Library – a $75.00 value. The data from completed surveys has been fascinating so far and I’m looking forward to sharing the results at the end of the month, click here to complete the survey. In …

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