Humor
No! Don't Cut The Donkey Sketch
Fri, Sep 9, 2011
by Drew McManus
In case you thought the whole relevancy and identity crisis was something new to the business then allow me to direct you to a video clip from a Steve Martin NBC special that aired 30 years ago (the donkey bit shows up at 2:20).
Editorial Cartoon: Age Of Executives
Mon, Sep 9, 2011
by Drew McManus
Not every generation gets to live during a period of major transition but everyone in the business today is lucky enough to witness what I like to call the dawn of the executives. For reasons I don’t remember (likely due to the gin being consumed during the conversation), a colleague and I were talking about
Join The Dark Side
Thu, Sep 9, 2011
by Drew McManus
At nearly three quarters of a million views and more than 700 comments, you’ve probably seen the article from the 9/5/2011 edition of cracked.com by Lillian Marx titled 5 Bizarre Dark Sides to Modern Orchestras. Keep in mind cracked.com is a comedy site so don’t go into this thinking it’s an epilogue to a Foundation
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Board
Mon, Aug 8, 2011
by Drew McManus
Denial is a crazy thing; particularly when it comes to crisis management. One tip on knowing when your organization might be taking the first step off of a very large cliff is when more stakeholders focus on insignificant items to the detriment of obvious, high priority tasks. For example, if your orchestra’s senior management team
Fun With Venn Diagrams: Crisis Management
Tue, Aug 8, 2011
by Drew McManus
It’s been a little while since we had some fun with Venn Diagrams but a recent email exchange with a consulting colleague who was lamenting the long term damage from too much evidential fallacy oriented thinking put an idea into my head for the following Venn diagram.
