Nov 19, 2025 | Music Leadership
The following contains excerpts from the book, 25 Ways to Win With People (John Maxwell). I have been a musician for the majority of my life, and as I have grown as a musician and artist, my understanding of what makes music successful has also developed over the...
Nov 19, 2025 | Music Leadership
The following contains excerpts from the book, Blink (Malcolm Gladwell). Training is the musician/artist’s best friend. Deep training provides the artist with the confidence he will need to overcome even the worst-case scenarios on the journey of influential...
Nov 19, 2025 | Music Leadership
The following contains excerpts from the resource, Communicating with Diplomacy and Tact (Assessment) (Carnegie Training). Learning to communicate with others is essential in successful musical and artistic collaboration. In our music school in Odessa Texas, we hope...
Nov 19, 2025 | Music Leadership
The following contains excerpts from the book, Becoming a Person of Influence (John Maxwell). Ultimately, the goal of a musician or artist is not to make great music, but rather for that music to influence others. Influence is leadership. In our music school in Odessa...
Nov 19, 2025 | Music Leadership
The following contains excerpts from the book, As a Man Thinketh (James Allen). Musicians and artists must ultimately learn to navigate the space between their ears, the internal space of thought and imagination successfully. The contents of this book challenge the...
Nov 19, 2025 | Music Leadership
The following contains excerpts from the book, Attitude 101 (John Maxwell). What I have come to believe about music is that it is not predominantly sound. Of course, we hear music. But that is not its essence. I have come to believe that music is relationships....
