A colleague sent me this amazing 13min. TED piece:

( http://www.ted.com/talks/stefon_harris_there_are_no_mistakes_on_the_bandstand... )

, in which Stefon Harris and band play some very beautiful and soothing music, THEN comes the talk on music "creation", "mistakes", "acceptance", "communication", and "finance".

At 11min. 00sec. a really interesting segment begins on micro management and creativity...

Some questions this piece provoked for me:

Does creating music and creating other things relate, and, if so, how ?

Musicians know how to play their instruments ( role ), but what if development team members ( admittedly, or not ) don't know how to play their role ~ can you get anywhere ?

Music, and other forms have a negative space. In music the negative space is the space between the notes, the place where nothing is happening. In visual arts it is the white space. The space that brings your attention more fully to the other things available to see.

So what do you do when team members hang out for long periods of time in this seeming nothingness ?

What do you do when you can see and hear passion when your team mates talk, but there is no real conversion to action ?

Worse, what do you do when the action that does get produced is in complete contrast and seeming opposition to the stated and agreed upon goals ?

And, in closing, where are your effective balance points between; structure and chaos, including and excluding, offering and requesting, pulling and pushing that produce a very high degree of success in a development project ?

Enjoy !...

For those of you that I've been talking to about the subject of this post I found this to be an interesting perspective on the future of web search:

( http://www.fastcompany.com/1754800/conversation-is-the-new-search )

I really like the direction things can take from where this is coming from ~ very interesting possibilities !!...

I've also been exploring energy focus in the domain of financial abundance and wanted to share a few things with you here in the new year.

You are probably familiar with the book / movie "The Secret", which from a brand and marketing perspective has been a phenomenal project and success for it's creators of which I am not one.

This post is actually about some older work that was perhaps foundational. Both books are great, quick reads with an ample amount of value that can be derived from the works IF the reader can get past the specific religious referrences that were used at the time. Enjoy...

The Science of Getting Rich

The Game of Life and How to Play It (Prosperity Classic)