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“Focus On Maximum Flavor” – a Team Chili Cookoff Quix Tip

By Rob Fletcher | Published: June 19, 2013
“Low and Slow Makes for Maximum Flavor” – Seth Godin Here’s a Quix Tip to help you cook up the best chili and the best life. Pick one small thing you’d like to savor more. Start by moving through that experience the way you normally would. Take a deep breath in, then a long slow exhale, as [...]
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The Best Chili Cookoff Recipe Ever! (Top Secret)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: June 17, 2013
  “Low and Slow Makes for Maximum Flavor” – Seth Godin Here’s the secret to the best chili cookoff recipe: There is none. I’ve led many Team Chili Cookoff team building activities where teams have looked up chili recipes online during the program. A Google search may even lead future teams to this article. Sorry [...]
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Six things the best musicians (and all artists) tell us:

By Rob Fletcher | Published: June 5, 2013
This is part of a series of posts that collects the wisdom that comes to me from seeing great musicians play live. I’m looking here for the threads of connective tissue between the beauty of what I heard and experienced with how I approach my work and my own musical art. I hope you find [...]
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Memorizing Music and Advice for Musicians: Grégoire Maret Interview (Part 2)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: June 3, 2013
This is part of a series of posts that collects the wisdom that comes to me from seeing great musicians play live. I’m looking here for the threads of connective tissue between the beauty of what I heard and experienced with how I approach my work and my own musical art. I hope you find [...]
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Opening New Doors on the Harmonica: Grégoire Maret Interview (Part 1)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: May 31, 2013
This is part of a series of posts that collects the wisdom that comes to me from seeing great musicians play live. I’m looking here for the threads of connective tissue between the beauty of what I heard and experienced with how I approach my work and my own musical art. I hope you find [...]
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Grégoire Maret Quartet Plays the Vermont Jazz Center: “In the Company of Magicians” (Part Two)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: May 29, 2013
This is part of a series of posts that collects the wisdom that comes to me from seeing great musicians play live. I’m looking here for the threads of connective tissue between the beauty of what I heard and experienced with how I approach my work and my own musical art. I hope you find [...]
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Grégoire Maret Quartet Plays the Vermont Jazz Center: “In the Company of Magicians” (Part One)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: May 24, 2013
This is part of a series of posts that collects the wisdom that comes to me from seeing great musicians play live. I’m looking here for the threads of connective tissue between the beauty of what I heard and experienced with how I approach my work and my own musical art. I hope you find [...]
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Take a Trip Around the World With World Rhythms (A Music of Teams Music Team Building Post)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: January 24, 2012
“To restrict your listening to English-language pop is like deciding to eat the same meal for the rest of your life.” – David Byrne (Talking Heads) European classical music emphasizes melody and harmony more than rhythm. African music has always emphasized rhythm more than harmony or melody. It was these two traditions meeting up that [...]
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Quix Pix of 2011 – Part 1

By Rob Fletcher | Published: December 29, 2011
Every month we share some of our currently favorite books, music, movies and TV shows in our newsletter, The Quixote Quest. Here are six of our twelve favorite movies (in no particular order) that we watched in 2011. 1. Mary and Max – Funny, poignant, weird, claymation. That about sums it up and those words will [...]
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What do Gandalf the Grey and Wangari Maathai have in common?

By Rob Fletcher | Published: November 14, 2011
By Laura Herbert What could an elder wizard and an environmental and political activist possibly have in common? Gandalf, for one is fictional, yet his gentle strength and powerful wisdom make him one of the most beloved characters in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Wangari Maathai, on the other hand, was a very real figure [...]
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