We need to all make great music together
By Michael Greene -- Furniture Today, February 3, 2002
The other day, I tuned in to a radio station that offers classical music and was very fortunate to catch a Mozart opera and an intermission interview with two stars, one a famous tenor and the other one of the world's most sought-after opera conductors.
The interview was most revealing. These two winners not only complement one another's great musical skills but, more importantly, I learned that each one has the innate ability to understand what the other guy is all about.
All about? Yes. They each understand the other's abilities and responsibilities and thereby form a formidable team when one is on the opera stage and the other is in the orchestra pit.
It seems they not only sense where the other part of the team is heading, but also understand what kind of a day he's having. It's wonderful! It's the kind of stuff that quality, long-term marriages are based on.
Uh! Oh! I can already hear you groaning out there. Here goes Michael on another one of his verbal escapades about his Bubbila.
Well, I could but I won't. Because the kind of marriage I'm talking about here is a business marriage. It's not one that's "made in heaven" but rather one that's made on solid earth ... a dollar and doughnuts earth.
As one of the participants commented, when the performer on stage tosses out a unique musical curve, the other has learned how to catch it in the orchestra pit and then send it right back with a couple of added twists and curves that reinforces the initial attempt.
That, my friends, is a great skill. A skill that not only can turn boo-boos into bonanzas but, more importantly, can take a performance involving singers, musical instruments and staging to unknown heights.
Am I talking opera? Nope, I'm talking business. Your business. I'm talking about you as the director of your show on Main Street, understanding the performers on your daily stage. Not only that. I'm talking about your performers understanding what you are all about — your goals, your hopes and your limitations. And you understanding their goals a-n-d their limitations.
And, most importantly, each one of you understanding the audience you are performing in front of. I mean, of course, your customers, that fickle gang which, when they buy an admission ticket, wants the best show on earth, no matter what the ticket price was.
Yes! Three musketeers ... all for one and one for all. Each one ready for the other gal or guy should he/she hit a flat pace that threatens the entire symphony. As my old friend Willie Shakespeare once put it, more or less, "Life is a stage and we are the actors." Let's make music together.
Thanks, again, for listening.
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