“Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.” Quote by Fabio Frizzi
“I know a lot of bands that will make their first record and get to a certain level, and then when the second record comes out, they can start where they left off as a headlining act playing in front of a certain number of people, or they can go back out and make a lot less money and open for people. I feel like if you go out and just go right back into that headlining stuff, you're playing to the converted.” People Author:Taylor Goldsmith
“Dawes kind of, on purpose, were like, "Let's realize that we're going to make less money, but let's try to get as many fans from as many kind of demographics as we can." And I feel really lucky that our music exists in this world where we can open for artists like M. Ward or Bright Eyes, and then on the same side of that open for Alison Krauss.” WorldTryingKindEyePurposeArtistRealizingLuckyBright Eyes Author:Taylor Goldsmith
“The University of Chicago is an astounding place. It's Yeshiva, a priesthood. It gives you an education, but more than that it gives you a mission. Oh, and an arrogance. But being Canadian helps with that.” GivingHelpingArrogance Author:Grant David McCracken
“You need to begin where people are. You can't punt ideas or innovations in from the 40 yard line. And yes, the work should feel so collaborative that it should feel like the end result belongs to everyone. Your best moment as a consultant is when your client plays your idea back to you as their idea. Your job: to nod sagely and say, "that's an excellent idea.".” PeopleMomentsInnovationExcellent Author:Grant David McCracken
“Now that everyone is reinventing and innovating, advantage goes to those who keep at it. We need to greet even success with humility.” Humility Author:Grant David McCracken
“Often it takes more time to explain a task than to do it yourself, and when you do it yourself there is no data lost in transmission. We have something to learn about how communication works in these settings. Sometimes it takes a really long time to communicate the full meaning of what we want to say.” LongSometimesCommunicationCommunicateTransmissionDo It YourselfReally Long Author:Grant David McCracken
“Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature but the real cause of lots of resistance often is that however much a team might say that it wants to change, the old assumptions are woven, invisibly, deep within the corporate culture, and from this staging ground they act invisibly to sustain the old order. Finding the assumption out and then rooting them out is a special skill. It calls for assumption hunters, I call them.” RealFallCultureFailingTeamSpecialExpectationsAssumptionInitiative Author:Grant David McCracken
“Business schools do most things very well. They are just not comprehensive and what they miss are things like culture and creativity and a certain kind of pattern recognition that comes easily to people trained in the liberal arts.” PeopleKindArtSchoolCultureCreativityMissingRecognitionLiberal Arts Author:Grant David McCracken
“Keeping the ship on course will be the first and most difficult order of business. Everyone is going to be piloting their organization through very high waters where things can change in an instant.” DifficultWaterInstant Author:Grant David McCracken
“That culture is a a critical resource the organization ignores. Competely mystifying. The organization continues to act as if culture were dark matter, something essentially inaccessible to us. When in fact there is an ancient discipline called anthropology that's pretty good at thinking about it.” ThinkingCultureDarkDisciplineAncientAnthropology Author:Grant David McCracken