Nashville has a program, Leadership Music, which brings local music movers-and-shakers together, based on a similar program, Leadership Nashville, to bring community business leaders together.
Leadership Music's head helps unite Row's fractious factions - 07/24/06 - Tennessean.com: "... a dozen Leadership Nashville alumni — led by former Warner Bros. Nashville President Jim Ed Norman — created a similar program in 1989 geared specifically to the city's music industry.
"The goal was to offer leaders from all the relevant segments of the music business a chance to learn about the rest of the industry and, in the process, get to know each other as well. [Executive director Kira] Florita says the segments have changed along with the industry— for instance, the head of label and artist relations for Yahoo Music will be among those included in the class of 2007 — though the mission remains the same.
"Perhaps the hardest part of the program for most participants is the time commitment.
"Leadership Music kicks off each year with a two-day, overnight opening retreat in October and a closing retreat in May with six 12-hour days scattered in between. Not only is attendance mandatory, cell phones are prohibited — not an easy set of rules for roughly 50 incomprehensibly busy music executives, nor for the high-caliber alumni who run the program under the direction of Florita and her assistant."
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