Bob Lefsetz, Author at The Big Picture

1. Play the long game. If you need to succeed immediately, if you can’t live in flux, if you can’t handle anxiety,...

The holidays are a bitch. It’s the same media disconnect we experienced with the election. The stories say one thing, the truth is...

The job of an artist is to speak truth to power. Where have all the artist gone? They’re hiding. Afraid of losing their living,...

They got access via phishing scams. Dopes are no match for nerds. And guns are no match for computers. That’s right, 1’s and...

1. Take a long hard look at yourself. What kind of music do you make? Pop or genre tunes? If you don’t see your music fitting in...

This is exactly what happened in the music business. Fat cats inured to the old ways could not handle change and after a decade of...

It’s all about trust. Shane Smith and his roving group of merrypersons are going to take over the news business, they’re...

“He not busy being born is busy dying.” Bob Dylan wrote that. It’s a line from “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m...

This is a breakthrough. The problem with Apple Music is it’s locked behind a paywall, and unlike Sirius there’s no amnesty, no free...

They’re killing the book business. The old guard, the ones married to paper and indie bookstores, the publishers afraid of big bad...