Business Buddhism

Malvina Reynolds sings about the ticky-tacky professionals, who all look just the same.

I suspect that her distance from them lets her miss the point. You don’t need a guitar to sing your song.

The musician battles the same two choices as the sales-executive every day: risk averse and conforming to expectations vs. emotionally courageous self-expression. Ticky-tacky is as ticky-tacky does. It’s not in the profession that we occupy; it’s in how we express ourselves in our profession.

For the singer, as much as for the lawyer, art begins beyond the “notes:” when we care.