Entertainment Career

These detailed stories are 100 percent true and told to the best of my recollection. These stories have impacted my music career, have been with me for over 25 years, and have impacted my life in ways that I could only speak about having gone through the process. Somehow, through faith, persistence, and more persistence, I was able to overcome obstacles that were far greater than my abilities.

Technobody - maker of wearable technologies - is under attack. Its strategic plan is slowly being killed by the top strategy villains every company faces: bad meetings (Meeting Menace), fire drills (Fire Driller), silos (Silo-Clops), too many priorities (Dr. Yes), and many others. They are members of the Anti-Strategy Squad (A.S.S.), a gang whose mission is to cause mass strategycide and global bankruption. But Technobody, led by its fearless managers and three superheroes - StrategyMan, Innovatara, and Purposeidon - it will summon all of its strategic thinking powers.

Barrington saw the eight-year-old Mozart perform in London. He then met with Mozart and his family, and he recounts that meeting, describing Mozart's skill at sight-reading and improvisatory composition demonstrated at the meeting, as well as describing elements of the young composer's personality. He also conveys the results of his research into Mozart's other early activities and compares Mozart's precocious talents to other well-known child prodigies of his era.

In many work places staff are organised into teams and making the team work effectively is a crucial responsibility of the team leader. In this programme we will consider strategies for developing a strong staff team through having a common focus and by using the diverse strengths of individual team players. You will learn how you, as team leader, can make the difference and help your team to be extremely effective.

Why do some people seem to achieve so much more than others? In this programme you will learn how to use long term goals to give direction to your life, professionally and personally. You will be offered ways of setting short-term and interim goals to fit into the content of your long-term goals. Specific techniques will be introduced to assist you in working towards your goals and realistically achieving them.

Do you spend hours of your precious time in boring, ineffective meetings? In this programme you will learn how to prepare for meetings in a way that helps to make them more focused and effective. We will also look at ways of keeping meetings on track so everyone benefits and feels that meetings are no longer a waste of time.

All managers have a responsibility for getting their message across effectively, whether it be in a formal or informal setting. In this programme you will find out how to ensure that you present information in such a way that you get your message across perfectly by preparing both your delivery and yourself, to bring your audience with you.

Every manager has to influence others more, as we change from command and control management to a more empowered work force. In this programme you will explore the preparation and techniques which enable you to be a powerful and ethical influencer. You will add to that, the skills for handling negotiations so that both sides feel they have gained and come to win…win.