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…
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 …