Executive Profiles Part 2

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Today’s installment will begin by examining the final executive profile: Builders… Builders Among all of the executive profiles, Builders maintain the most intensity, drive, and vision. At the same time, they also share the greatest number of specific administrative characteristics with the other two profiles. The result is that many Builders will make good use of their individual skill set to help achieve their vision. Moreover, vision are what drive Builders. …

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Executive Profiles Part 1

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The majority of executive administrators today tend to conform to one of three basic profiles: Managers, Leaders, or Builders. Naturally, individuals rarely conform to any one profile and some evolve from one profile to another throughout the length of their career…. Bear in mind, these profiles are based on observational knowledge supported by numerous events, acknowledged publicly and privately, over the past several years. As such, citing specific examples to support …

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Reader Response: Racist Nonsense II

Shortly after publishing the last Reader Response to this article, I received an email from Jerome Harris, a 50-something professional jazz musician: black American, native Brooklynite, working-class background/Ivy League grad/middle-class income, omnivorous listener.  He wrote in to comment about some passages in that article as well as the ideas from the original piece.

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Reader Response: Racist Nonsense

I received a number of wonderful responses from the Bunch Of Racist Nonsense article published from last Wednesday.  As with most issues that generate a good deal of responses there are always some surprises, and this was no exception.

Many messages were from orchestra managers (wishing to remain anonymous) who expressed varying degrees of disappointment and aggravation over the fact that their respective orchestra boards do a very poor job at reflecting the diversity of their community.

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A Bunch Of Racist Nonsense

A recent article in the San Antonio Express-News inspired me to write about an issue that’s been steadily growing in my mind.

I’ve been bothered to see an increasing trend in this industry by some to explain away the declining audience base for classical music:  that some immigrant and minority communities aren’t interested in classical music because their respective cultures don’t have a traditional relationship with it.

Nonsense!

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