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Category Archives: Quest Stories
How Great Teams Communicate Quest Story #1
Better Morning Meetings: How Great Teams Communicate Quest Story #1 The Client’s Quest: An international investment management firm wanted help with communication between two groups with very different job descriptions – the investment team and the infrastructure team. Both needed each other and the key information that each team member could provide. They had [...]
Ten Qs and As with Quixote Consulting Event Manager Christine Locke
Christine Locke joined us as a corporate events manager in 2012 and I’d like to introduce her here in the blog. It’s important to me that teams get to know each other as people – I build it into the design of all of our team building and training exercises. It helps to know the [...]
RIP Jack Klugman (Oscar Madison from The Odd Couple)
When I was a kid, I loved watching The Odd Couple. I loved the theme song of course, but mainly I loved Jack Klugman’s character Oscar. Oscar Madison was a role model for me. I loved how messy his room was, how much fun he seemed to have, that he was a writer and how [...]
Posted in Quest Stories | Tagged Jack Klugman, Jack Klugman quotes, Oscar Madison, The Odd Couple, Tony Randall | Comments closed
Concentrated Passion – Joss Whedon on writing The Cabin in the Woods in three days
Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard wrote the movie The Cabin in the Woods in a concentrated time and space. One was downstairs in a hotel suite and the other was upstairs. They shared a printer and sent stuff back forth to each other, building on what the other was writing. They started at 6 AM [...]
Also posted in Passion, Persistence, Play, Purpose, Put It Together | Tagged Drew Goddard, Joss Whedon, Joss Whedon quotes, The Cabin in the Woods, War of the Gargantuas | Comments closed
The Story Behind ‘What the World Needs Now is Love’, one of Hal David’s most beloved songs
I adore the song What the World Needs Now is Love, written in 1965 by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. And if you read this blog, you know I also love the stories behind things I love and people I admire. Here’s the lyrics to What the World Needs Now is Love below and then [...]
Also posted in Music, Passion | Tagged Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Enough to last 'til the end of time. What the world needs now Is love, Hal David, if you want to know! What the world needs now Is love, Jack de Shannon, listen Lord, not just for some but for everyone., not just for some But for everyone. Lord, not just for some but for everyone. No, Shindig, sweet love- No, sweet love. It's the only thing That there's just too little of. What the world needs now Is love, Vietnam War, we don't need another meadow; There are cornfields and wheat fields enough to grow. There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine. Oh, we don't need another mountain; There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb. There are oceans and rivers enough to cross, What the World Needs Now is Love | Comments closed
Hal David Quotes – RIP Hal David
One of my favorite lyricists died this week – Hal David, the lyric-writing part of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David songwriting team. He was the quiet side of the writing team and to me was unfairly forgotten. People (and I’m guilty of this too) often introduce or mention a song they wrote together as a “Burt [...]
Also posted in Music | Tagged 24 Hours from Tulsa A House is Not a Home Alfie America Is American Beauty Rose Anyone Who Had a Heart Blue on Blue Close to You Do You Know the Way to San Jose Don't Make Me Over I Say a Little Praye, Burt Bacharach, Hal David quotes, Promises Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head Reach Out for Me The April Fools The Look of Love The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance There's Always Something There?to Remind Me This Guy's in Love With You To | Comments closed
Bruce Springsteen on being a conduit for everything in your life
“You’re the shaman, a little bit, you’re leading the congregation. But you are the same as everybody else in the sense that your troubles are the same, your problems are the same, you’ve got your blessings, you’ve got your sins, you’ve got the things you can do well, you’ve got the things you mess up [...]
“In the long run, original wins” – Steve Van Zandt on Bruce Springsteen
Steve Van Zandt, a life-long bandmate of Bruce Springsteen, met him in the late 60s. He said that back then you were judged by how well you copied music on the radio. But…“Bruce was never good at it. He had a weird ear. He would hear different chords, but he could never hear the right chords. [...]
My father, the artist
My father, Robert Alexander Fletcher is 81 today. He’s still drawing and painting, still working around the farm, still planning book projects. He’s an inspiration in persistence. He loves ideas and he loves making those ideas come to life. The farm I grew up on looks very different today than when I was born, all [...]
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How Great Teams Communicate Quest Story #2