
It's easy to overlook how crucial that is.
When an editor at Forbes asked me to write something explaining why I just wrote a book called The Right Fight (with a co-author, Damon Beyer), a bigger question occurred to me. Why would anyone write any business leadership book these days? Certainly, given the challenging economics of publishing, not to make money.
The genesis of this book goes way back to my childhood, before I ever really thought about money. Studying piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music, I had the good fortune to work with members of the Cleveland Orchestra. It caught my attention that these great artists struggled each day to create their extraordinary art. It wasn't easy, and it wasn't just fun. To create music they believed worthy, they had to dig deep, to fight inside themselves and with one another to get to something that went beyond technique and the written score, to something worthy of being called art.
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