Conducting an orchestra and opera singers is different from your job as a Program Director. One of the reasons I have so much respect for radio programmers and performers is that you operate without a script, without all the notes already written down for the ...

COVID has even affected Westminster, the hugely prestigious national dog show usually held in New York every February. Anyone who knows me knows I love dogs so I will concede I may be biased to the point of blindness — but I don’t think I’m alone. I think most ...

I get as frustrated with doomsayers saying Radio is done as I do with Radio and the current state of consolidated ownership. Yes, listeners want far fewer interruptions and commercials. And this is a persistent and seemingly intractable problem for commercial radio ...

I was hired to coach a big-name national platform talent a couple of years ago. It was fun. Working with super-talented people is always fun. But he got a bit prickly when I suggested he spent too much time talking about his “fabulous London vacation.” My belief ...

We have learned, this past decade or two, that words have power. We’ve learned that our nation is divided on too many issues, that our identity as a nation, our survival as the world’s hope is at risk. Yes, part of your job is to take me away from the ceaseless ...

There’s a wonderful lesson for anyone coaching or managing creative talent. You can watch it HERE. Today, I want to help you, as the talent, get the most out of the feedback you receive from your coaches and managers. No one tries to give a gift they know the ...

He’s been gone almost 9 years! That hardly seems possible. Steve understood his company so well. He understood what the people who were attracted to his message felt and wanted. He understood the point, and the limitations of marketing in this era. He understood ...

Ok, answer this: Does your work center around creating a product that requires consistent engagement every time someone listens? Of course it does, whether you’ve spent much time thinking about that or not. This guy, Nir Eyal, thinks about it constantly. He’s even ...

We forget the fearlessness of our youth, the willingness to fail, spectacularly, rise up and try again. We reach a point where there’s more concern about what we might lose rather than what we might gain, a defensiveness that shuts out the very stuff that makes life ...