{"id":20,"date":"2007-05-21T07:55:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T07:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaytoreality.com\/general\/2007\/benjamin-zander-in-contribution-there-is-no-better"},"modified":"2007-05-21T07:55:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T07:55:40","slug":"benjamin-zander-in-contribution-there-is-no-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/21\/benjamin-zander-in-contribution-there-is-no-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Zander: In contribution, there is no better!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"Benjamin Zander in action\" id=\"image24\" alt=\"Benjamin Zander in action\" src=\"http:\/\/thompsonsimon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/benjamin_zander.jpg\" \/>I feel indebted to <a title=\"Presentation Zen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presentationzen.com\/presentationzen\/2007\/05\/two_questions_w.html\">Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen<\/a> for introducing me to Benjamin Zander, or at least the following video of him talking to music students:<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaytoreality.com\/http3A2F2Fwww.youtube.com2Fwatch3Fv3DWNhRxfbXikE\">YouTube &#8211; Benjamin Zander Speech Preview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zander is the British-born conductor of the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, clearly an incredible presence on stage, and apparently now a big name on the management training circuit. Here, he is talking about being a performing musician, but the parallels are not lost:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are about contribution, that&#8217;s what our job is &#8230; everyone was clear you contributed passion to the people in this room. Did you do it better than the next violinist, or did he do better than a pianist? I don&#8217;t care, because in contribution, there is no better!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spin that yourself any way you like, but Zander clearly isn&#8217;t a man interested in the substandard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel indebted to Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen for introducing me to Benjamin Zander, or at least the following video of him talking to music students: Link: YouTube &#8211; Benjamin Zander Speech Preview Zander is the British-born conductor of the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, clearly an incredible presence on stage, and apparently now a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-web-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}