Eric Whitacre has produced an amazing virtual choir. You can hear their recording of “Lux Aurumque” on the YouTube video below. Eric has never met or practiced with his choir, it contains more than 185 singers from 12 countries. He simply asked them all to download his sheet music and a video of him conducting, […]
Keep Your Eye on the Baton
3 world records for you: 1. 400m: Michael Johnson, 1999, 43.18 seconds (10.80 seconds/100m) 2. 100m: Usain Bolt, 2009, 9.58 seconds (9.58 seconds/ 100m) 3. 4 x 100m relay: Jamaica, 2008, 37.10 seconds (9.28 seconds/100m) If you want to be fast, focus on the runner, buy the best shoes; and most of all focus on […]
Congruence
Have you ever walked in to a hotel room to find all the lights switched on, with the legend “Welcome to our hotel Mr Smith” writ large all over the gently humming TV. The intention is to give you a warm welcome, never mind all the wasted power. Yet the same hotel will ask you […]
Mr Motivator
We all know about the carrot and stick, but do they work? Embedded below is a fascinating talk by Dan Pink at the the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Apparently the solution is to work on your “transcendent purpose”. Well worth a ten minute ponder.
Do you Put Your Customers First?
I once went for a job interview with an insurance company. Parked right outside the front door was the biggest Mercedes Benz I have ever seen, with the legend MD stencilled above the parking space. As I walked away from the door the Mercs gradually got smaller and smaller. It wasn’t, needless to say, the […]
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