They say that music imitates life… it can also define it. The music of the 60s and 70s stretched our understanding of who we were and what we thought about the world around us. I suppose that’s true of every generation, but that’s when the music shaped and changed me. When people from everywhere and every walk of life came together. That was the lens I looked through when I entered the world of work and, interestingly, that shaped my thinking when creating workplace cultures in those workplaces. Didn’t matter who we were or what we believed outside of work, when there we were of one mind and objective: to keep the promise of service excellence. For sure there was a hierarchy, but on the floor, we were all everyday people pushing in the same direction. That’s the wonder of a workplace – it was true back then and that’s what you should aim for today.
Sylvester Stewart (1943 – 2025): American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer better known by his stage name Sly Stone.[1]
[1] He was the frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of psychedelic soul and funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia, and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s.
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