Moving Performance Blog
Sir Alex Ferguson’s Orchestral Management Style
Poor David Moyes. Some would say he was doomed to fail, following in the footsteps of a football manager like Sir Alex Ferguson who was more legend than real by the end of his term at Manchester United Football Club. But perhaps Moyes could have learned, as Ferguson did, from the way the orchestra work…
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Mahler And How Bold Moves Empower Businesses
One of my (Ben’s) favourite symphonies is Gustav Mahler’s Third. It’s the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, with six movements, and a huge range of sound meant to encapsulate the entirety of human emotion. I’ve seen it performed loads of times, so when Timothy Redmond, the conductor who works together with us on our…
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Inspiring Change in Business on International Women’s Day
‘Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman,’ sang Tammy Wynette, but today, on International Women’s Day, the question is ‘Is it harder to be a woman than it should be?’ This year’s theme is Inspiring Change, and alongside issues of women’s welfare around the world, inevitably International Women’s Day forces us to look at where…
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Pick Up The Baton
There aren’t many people able to conduct an orchestra, and very few of us will ever get the chance to try without putting in years of study and hard work first. Last September ImprovEverywhere, (the people behind the annual No Pants Subway Ride) sat an ensemble of musicians from the Carnegie Hall Orchestra on a…
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New year, new website, even better performance
You might have noticed that we’ve got a new look here at Moving Performance, a refresh for the new year. While we’d like to be modest, we want to share our successes with you, and also to make it easier to show you the growing range of ways we’re engaging with organisations like yours. So,…
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The Unsung Players
Every orchestra has a conductor. A chamber orchestra might have around 50 musicians. In a full-size symphony orchestra, like the Royal Philharmonic, there’s around 80 which can grow to over hundred for certain pieces of music. But beyond the players we see on-stage, there will be hundreds more working behind-the-scenes, making sure every concert runs…
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Emotional intelligence from schoolroom to boardroom
One of the biggest challenges facing businesses today isn’t a lack of rational thinking in the boardroom, but rather, how to lead with emotional awareness. Even in the rational world of business and commerce, EQ is as valuable as IQ. Rational thought took centre stage last week when it was reported that British children are…
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Moving Performance scores applause in the Telegraph
Our flagship leadership programme Know the Score® received a stellar review in today’s Daily Telegraph. The newspaper’s opera critic and classical music reporter Rupert Christiansen joined 30 leaders from different sectors and industries for Know the Score® at the Royal Albert Hall last week. As part of a day-long seminar the participants sat amongst the…
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The music of an organisation
All the best teams have a rhythm; a flow that is in all of them which makes whatever they do really good. Sports people call this “the zone”. You know when you hit the zone – everything falls into place – the technical aspects of what you do seem easier, the goal is achievable, working…
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