Archive for June 9th, 2009

This Is Your Brain On Music. The science of a human obsession. Daniel J. Levitin


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This Is Your Brain On Music. The science of a human obsession. Daniel J. Levitin. 2007. ISBN 0525949690.  This is one of those cross over books that impacts anyone who reads it.

We have all heard the 10 000 hours to mastery story, well this book was the source of that comment.  Consider a well experienced musi cian who goes back to school for a PhD in neural science in order tostudy what really happens in the mind (not the brain) when music is played. The book reads like the best gripping fiction, but it is all true, it is science.  Just not the science you are used to having ladled into your  unreceptive student brain.  While reading this you will be engaged and saying  “That is so true” so many times. For me this has opened up  completely new genres to listen to and learn from.  I measure genius as being able to take the complex and make it really easy to understand.  Thank you Dr Levitin. (And thank you son Brock for giving me this book)

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Being Strategic. Plan for success;out-think your competitors;stay ahead of change. Erika Anderson

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Being Strategic. Plan for success;out-think your competitors;stay ahead of change. Erika Anderson. 2009. ISBN 139780312553982.   Likely one of the clearest books on strategy I have ever read. Many of our clients come to us with processes and plans that are an undisciplined mix of tactics and strategy. Anderson makes a some good definitions of strategy and tactics (e.g. Strategy is where you want to be, tactics is how you will get there) . The author clearly understands group dynamics making this an essential handbook on getting groups through strategy planning and execution sessions.  (I wish I had had this book 30 years ago. ) An easy read with sufficient activities and exercises that the reader has ample opportunity to imprint the learning.

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