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March 21, 2023
Music Makes You …“Words make you think thoughts. Music makes you feel a feeling. But a song makes you feel a thought.” I saw that quote in a weekly posting from Roy Williams, the Wizard of Ads. But it made me remember I'd seen something similar years ago from Yip Harburg, ...
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March 14, 2023
The GreatestIt's an unlikely story, but so many of the most memorable are once we pause to look back. Could anyone have predicted Mother Teresa? Mahatma Gandhi? Part of the miracle of Jesus Christ is the sheer improbability of his impact two thousand years after his death. No ...
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March 7, 2023
#613 THE KEY TO EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK"You can say almost anything to someone if they feel safe. Likewise, you can hear almost anything, if you feel safe." "Now let me be clear — I’m not suggesting negative feedback will make you feel giddy — but I am suggesting that if you feel ...
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February 28, 2023
Rising StrongIt's chic to say we want our employees to fail, that if they're not failing, they're not pushing the envelope enough. Blah, blah, blah. In our world, our real world, when we fail spectacularly, we lose our jobs. So, it's refreshing to find a book that deals with the ...
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February 21, 2023
Your Unique Story"A brand is the unique story that consumers recall when they think of you." That's Laura Busche's definition in her book Lean Branding, and it works for me. This is something most radio stations and personalities pay little attention to, sadly. If you asked 100 ...
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February 14, 2023
Finding YourselfWhy did you get into Radio? What made you seek that first radio job? Did you see yourself running a huge media empire, like Rupert Murdoch? Did you see yourself becoming a billionaire, like Mark Cuban? Did it seem like an easier job than selling vacuum cleaners or ...
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February 7, 2023
The Most Destructive WordKnow what it is? Can't say what I really feel about elections because politics is so polarizing. Can't invite a conversation about the millions lives lost to Covid in America because it's such a downer. Can't reveal the anxiety I feel about my marriage because ...
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January 31, 2023
Ahhhh, This Is The Trick!"Storytellers are concerned with the question of how to endow experience with meaning..." Do you see yourself as a storyteller? How do you grab the attention of one individual listener, among perhaps hundreds of thousands (and in some of the European cities in which I ...
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January 24, 2023
A Better PlaceConflict - most of us hate it and will do almost anything to avoid it. But the truth is, conflict -- struggle and desperation and the dark side of life -- is where creativity lives for many of us. If you want to connect with listeners on an emotional level (which is ...
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January 17, 2023
A Better PlaceConflict: most of us hate it and will do almost anything to avoid it. But the truth is, conflict -- struggle and desperation and the dark side of life -- is where creativity lives for many of us. If you want to connect with listeners on an emotional level (which is ...