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Here is an excerpt from the WOSU posting:

If you like classical music (even if you don’t!) and your work (at home, at the office, or elsewhere in the community) ever calls you to lead others, I recommend you read Roger Nierenberg’s new book, Maestro: A Surprising Story about Leading and Listening...

...Maestro doesn’t waste its readers’ time.  Nierenberg gets right to the matter: a corporate executive (whose name is never revealed) is besieged by squabbling and seemingly unmotivated division leaders who don’t seem to want to help him fix the company’s lagging sales figures.  His daughter’s violin teacher sets him up with a conductor known for being a good leader.  The conductor (whose name also is never revealed) invites the executive to sit in the orchestra while he rehearses it.  Over several rehearsals and conversations with the conductor, the executive discovers how the conductor inspires his musicians.  He also comes to realize how he has inadvertently micromanaged, dismissed and otherwise belittled his own employees.  I won’t tell you how the book ends, but I bet you can guess.

Click here to read the entire article from the WOSU Classical eNotes post.