Answering And Calling

You need to have someone on your team who is good at answering the phone.

You need to have someone on your team who is good at making phone calls.

Both of these rolls fall under the expectations you probably have of your manager. But not all managers are good at both.

Answering the phone has a lot do to with day to day operations and fielding opportunities.

Making phone calls has a lot to do with finding and creating opportunities and proactively developing and executing the vision of the artist.

Some managers do both. Sometimes don’t.

So you can have a day to day manager and a manager who flies at thirty thousand feet.

One way or another, you need both.

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Smartest In The Room

If it’s important to someone that they are they smartest one in the room, the smartest thing is to let them have it.

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Required Skills

The first bullet point at the beginning of any job description’s required skills section ought to be:

- I’ll take care of it

Almost all of the other the other bullet points in the required skills section are merely learned skills. You can either check those boxes or not…and if you can’t check them you can go learn them.

I’ll take care of it is a posture which goes way beyond any job that can be described.

For the company posting the job, they think that list of required skills matches the job description. But we all know in the real world it doesn’t.

You always end up doing things far and wide outside of the job description. That’s the real job.

Which falls under the required skill: I’ll take care of it.

***The only way to develop this skill is not by learning about it but by doing it.

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When To Rehearse

If you only rehearse when you have a show coming up, your creativity will always be limited by…

1. Only coming up with ideas that can come to fruition immediately

2. Having to decide quickly to implement the idea or not

You need to rehearse when you don’t have a show coming up. Your mind will work differently when you do. You will begin thinking of (and implementing) the best ideas rather than the ones that will due given the time constraints.

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Not So Easily Helped

Some people are easily helped.

Some people aren’t. 

For those who aren’t…

1. You’re not easy to help because you don’t emit neediness AND you don’t clearly state what you need. It’s easier to help someone who seems like they need help or who asks for help.

And the truth is when you do finally begin stating what you need, the people you tell may not actually believe you or take action because you just don’t seem like the kind of person who needs help.

So you’re going to need to say what you need again and again. Consistent clarity of need.

2. You’re not easily helped because you don’t need the things that are easy to help with. You need the things that are hard to help with, which drastically shrinks the pool of people willing to take action on your part.

i.e. It’s easy to book some shows for a new band. It’s hard to sell out a club tour. It’s easy to book writing sessions. It’s hard to book writing sessions with big artists.

It might be worth it to figure out some ways that you still might be easily helped and invite people into those simple things. And let the simple things lead into the big difficult things.

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The Mountain Of Unknown Things

It’s a big mountain. (Infinitely bigger than the mole hill of the known)

Working day in and day out it’s easy to think that the only things going on are the things you yourself are aware of.

But lot of the unknown things in the mountain of unknown things are in favor of you. And they’re getting closer.  Not all of them will make it to you and most of them you’ll never know about. 

But some of them will make it to you. And when they do you’ll wonder how they ever happened…when the truth is they’ve already started, they’re already happening. They’re simply unknown to you right now.

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