Do you trust your manager?
It was good to be in Birmingham and learning some leadership lesson from Tommy Shelby but we need to move on. Today we are going to Central Europe and fast forwarding to 1997. This is Vienna and we are at the famous Musikverein – where the New Year’s concert takes place -. It is lunch time and the audience is eager to listen to the Mozart K. 466 Piano Concerto. Maria João Pires , one of the most renowned Mozart pianists, is in front of her piano. The Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, plays the first bars of the concert. At that precise moment Miss Pires puts her hand on her face and looks at the conductor. - I have prepared a different Mozart concert – she confesses in panic - I can try – she continues And Mr Chailly gives her three straight messages: You played that one last season. You can do it. You will do it well. And finishes with a smile full of confidence. And she starts, and sh...