Chapter 10. Be Ready to Prune
OK, so say you’ve got an orchestra and you get them to play. You listen. Something is wrong somewhere. Yep, that flute player is out of tune, off key, and playing from a different music sheet. Now you have three choices:
• Put up with it
• Change it
• End it
Let’s have a little look at these three because, as in all things—from relationships, to life, to work, to being a parent—these three choices are the same every time.
So, you’re going to put up with it. This makes your entire orchestra sound flat, out of tune, and ill-fitted to do its job properly—that of supplying sweet music to the masses. Your listening public (your objective) will not listen and will accuse you, the orchestra leader, of being a jerk*—and ...
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