Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach | Since 1996
Coaching for ambitious creative professionals
My last post looked at How Not to Give Feedback on Creative Work, with an example of breathtaking clumsiness from the Emperor in Amadeus. To recap, this is how the Emperor made a pig's ear of …
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Giving feedback on creative work is a tricky challenge, for two main reasons: Artists and creatives identify very closely with their work When a creative worker puts a piece of work in front of …
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I've discovered an excellent blog called New Music Strategies, which has a lively and well-argued point of view on the new realities of the music business. A good introduction is author Andrew …
Thanks to D'log for highlighting Demos' publication of a free PDF of The Independents by Charles Leadbeater and Kate Oakley. I read the printed version a while ago and was impressed by the way it …
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The Business Coaching series is now available to download as a free ebook Creative Management for Creative Teams. Following on from Key Coaching Skills in the Introduction to Business Coaching …
When I first saw the film Amadeus as an impressionable teenager, I had a lot of sympathy for Salieri. Not for what he did to Mozart of course, but for the frustration and disappointment that drove him …
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