Everything We Needed to Know About Business, We Learned Playing Music

A compilation of interviews with 32 CEOs and business leaders who played music as a child or adolescent and view that experience as a defining one in preparing them for success.  The nine common lessons learned, attributes developed, and insights gained are identified, discussed, and illustrated through the experience and personal accounts of the research participants.  These illuminating musical stories chronicle the journeys of these business leaders from the band room to the boardroom.  This unique and entertaining perspective on the power of music education is ideal reading for business leaders, innovators, educators, musicians, music hobbyists, and other music enthusiasts.  Paperback, 264 p.