Moving Performance Blog
Taylor Swift, free-economics, and what business can learn about sharing
Apple Music’s new streaming service, launching next week announced that they would, after all, start paying royalties to artists whose songs are streamed during the free trial period. Largely thanks to Taylor Swift. Swift is well known for tackling the streaming services on their fiscal attitude to the value of musicians’ work, and after penning an open…
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The cellist of Baghdad: moving business beyond words
“Music opens up emotions in a non-threatening and accessible way.” This is one of core beliefs, stated here on this website where we talk about the importance of emotional awareness in business. Music allows us to connect with and resolve something deeper, when words and even logic fail us. For many of our clients, change is…
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Two take outs from Record Store Day
Twenty years ago, no one could ever have predicted the sight of people all over the UK queueing on Britain’s high streets in the early hours of Saturday morning. Some, like enthusiasts who sleep outside the Apple store on the eve of a big release, had camped outside since the day before. But it wasn’t…
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Three questions to transform your teams
Utter the words ‘classical music’ and some people will immediately switch off. But according to Julian Lloyd Webber, as the new principal of the Birmingham Conservatoire, the phrase should be banned. “We’re talking about 500 or 600 years of music, all in different styles,” he was reported as saying in The Independent. “How can you…
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Five Things Jazz Can Teach Us About Business
Organisations can be like orchestras. But we’ve found that there are some which are like jazz ensembles. Some people love classical music, with it’s rhythms and the layers of history that build upon new iterations of the same score. Some people love jazz and the way it flows spontaneously. Jazz is hard. And jazz is wonderful too.…
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Keys to Collaboration: #4 Passion that’s catching
Collaboration is a hot topic in business at the moment, but what does true collaboration for growth actually look like, and how do we develop collaborative relationships? In a mini-series of blogposts, we’re exploring the different keys to collaboration, and what each of them means for your success. You’ve got a great idea and you…
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What Sam Smith Can Teach Us About Success
The Grammy awards were as ever, a lavish and flamboyant affair. As a celebration of the breadth of the music of our time, there’s not much else that comes close. Anglophiles will have been delighted this year too, as soul singer Sam Smith scooped a whopping four awards. And collecting them he linked together his music,…
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Keys to Collaboration: #3 Listening
Collaboration is a hot topic in business at the moment, but what does true collaboration for growth actually look like, and how do we develop collaborative relationships? In a mini-series of blogposts, we’re exploring the different keys to collaboration, and what each of them means for your success. Collaboration takes good communication, and we well…
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Keys to Collaboration #2: Gaining Goodwill
Collaboration is a hot topic in business at the moment, but what does true collaboration for growth actually look like, and how do we develop collaborative relationships? In a mini-series of blogposts, we’re exploring the different keys to collaboration, and what each of them means for your success. Tis the season for peace and goodwill,…
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