Archive for December 2014

Polished, focused, entertaining, strong, riveting – adjectives to describe great performances. This week, I received two emails that relate to “great performance”.  One was “How to Be an Epic Conductor” and the second was “Lead Like Great Conductors”.  Both messages are quite amusing – yet very much connected to what it takes to be excellent.…

Her albums have sold over 100 million copies. She doesn’t sing publicly anymore. Linda Ronstadt has Parkinson’s. Hit songs like “Heat Wave”, “Just One Look”, “That’ll Be The Day”, “Hurt So Bad”, “Blue Bayou”, “You’re No Good”, “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me”, “It’s So Easy”, “When Will I Be Loved” were some of her greatest hits.…