The YouTube Symphony Orchestra as a Virtual Team – an insider’s view

I confess to owning two blogs.  One is my work blog, and the other, this, a more whimsical personal blog.   As sometimes happen, there is a blog item that falls between two stools.  Here I blog about virtual teams (and of course, Nasrudin), and there I blog about sales channels – sometimes known as routes [...]

Changing roles

Sometimes taking a team member outside the role in which they are most comfortable falls flat on its face.
The German French horn player, Bruno Jaenicke (1887-1946), was, for many years, the principal hornist of the New York Philharmonic and a truly great one. He can be heard on many of Toscanini’s recordings. He rarely missed a note and was [...]

Virtual Teams in Music

Music is not often thought of as a field where one sees virtual teaming yet there are plenty of great examples. Studio musicians are very familiar with working in a virtual team. They often lay down tracks without the co-presence of other musicians.  Between 1985 and 1987, I had the privilege to be part of [...]