Sat.Nov 11, 2017

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Passion Versus Profession – Are Management Consulting and Music Production Really That Different?

Tom Spencer

As an aspiring management consultant who has also been working as a music producer for several years, composing, arranging, and producing songs for multiple artists, I get a lot of questions about this seemingly strange combination of interests. “If you love music so much, why don’t you do it as a full-time job?” “If you are really that passionate about consulting, shouldn’t you spend more of your free time reading about business trends instead of focusing on your hobby?”.

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Speakerphone voice

Seth Godin Blog

When the speakerphone is on in the conference room, do you talk differently?  It's pretty common. We breathe from a different spot, hold our chest differently, constrict our throats and generally try to shout our words across the ocean. The people listening on the speaker are used to it. The people in the room with you, less so. Human beings don't have a long cultural history with microphones.