Lefsetz’ Scorecard
MAJOR LABELS More powerful than at any time since Napster. Case in point, Sam Smith. One has to credit Capitol with a phenomenal...
Lefsetz’s Business Rules
1. You’ve got to get along. If you don’t have good people skills, you’ll never succeed, even if you run your own...
What You Learn When You’re 60
Death is not distant, it’s inevitable, and ever-closer. No one knows anything. Confidence is a front. Everybody is insecure. No one...
Lefsetz: 36 Things We’ve Learned
1. Nobody wants old people’s albums. Despite a plethora of press, Elton and McCartney’s and Elvis Costello’s album with...
Seinfeld On Stern
“Pop-Tarts…they can’t go stale because they were never fresh!” Long form entertainment, it’s the...
Lefsetz on Radio
1. The major music business, the “new music” business, is built upon radio, it depends upon it. 2. There’s a fiction...
Top Ten Issues in the Music Industry
Problems: 1. Filter People don’t know what to listen to. You can’t trust the radio, you can only trust your friends, and...
Bob Lefsetz’ History Lessons
SONY Succeeded with radical breakthroughs. Failed with incremental improvements. Shed your past if you want to succeed in the future. You...