Moving Performance Blog
The Power of Music — Using Music as a Metaphor for Leadership
On Wednesday 25th November 2015 Moving Performance presents Know the Score® – a day in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, exploring how their expertise and world-class levels of performance can help you to fine-tune your business – featuring Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. “I recently attended Know the Score®, using music as a metaphor for leadership…
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Innovation: How to Make Smart Choices in the Small Things
Small steps can lead to significant innovation, to success that far outweighs the size of the changes. Businesses that encourage a culture of innovation across their teams are the ones that run ahead and set the pace for those around them. But how do you make smart choices in the small things so they add…
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Managing Change
Sometimes change is vital and long overdue. When Viola Davis made her speech during the Emmy’s on Sunday night she was marking a moment of change and calling for more to follow. Change is not easy. Personally or corporately. It comes with struggle, often with loss, and many times with misunderstanding. However change can be…
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Performing Under Pressure
Stress can bring out the best – or the worst – in you. Remember the last time you felt like that, on the morning of a job interview, a peer review, or the night before you pitched for a new project? Jonas Kaufmann, a hugely acclaimed tenor and one of the most versatile performers of…
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The Power Of Music Music is More Powerful Than Pain
Music can move you so significantly that it causes you to forget where you are in that moment and engages your emotions in an entirely different way. Recent medical research shows that patients who listened to music before, during and after surgery experienced less anxiety and needed less pain relief. Significantly lead author Dr Catherine…
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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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