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Sue Phipps on her Vision Project

September 24, 2021 by briangruber No Comments

Thanks Sue Phipps for this wonderful review of your experience with Vision Project coaching.

A few months ago my mom passed away.  I was a nurse and had spent much quality time with her, and my father.  When they were gone, I was at a loss.  In my “4th quarter, maybe overtime” I wasn’t sure what my next steps should be.  I knew Brian well, saw how he embodied the tools and guidelines he brought to the Vision Project and saw the growth in my friend who worked with him in her own vision.  It was truly amazing!  I took the plunge, started the process and Brian guided me on my own path. 

Brian was a supportive mentor, helping me through the work, always keeping me focused and on track.  Because of it, I have a clearer vision in my own life and I’m passionate about the choices I’ve made.  The Vision Project gave me the tools, but it is Brian’s skill, kindness, and expertise that showed me how to steer my own course to the life I want.  I’m so grateful and would strongly recommend Brian and The Vision Project highly.

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The Vision Project in Two Minutes

February 20, 2014 by briangruber No Comments

101visions-logoHere’s a two minute video introducing The Vision Project. Brian Gruber describes the mission of The Vision Project in front of The Grove offices in San Francisco’s Presidio. The Vision Project empowers you to craft, achieve and inspire people around your personal or group vision. We provide the three key components for successful visioning: a great process, seasoned support and rich media for a deeper dive at your own pace.

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The Vision Project

August 4, 2013 by briangruber No Comments

maze4The world throws 5,000 commercial messages at you every day and your email box is overflowing. You run hard, and are thoughtful about life and work, but it’s hard to focus on big ideas like purpose and vision. We are fascinated by the process of visioning, how individuals and organizations develop audacious, aspirational visions and make them happen. The Vision Project is founded by long-time entrepreneur, executive and author Brian Gruber, who has made a career of inspiring teams in pursuit of big goals and big ideas.

The Vision Project empowers you to craft, achieve and inspire people around your personal or group vision. We provide the three key components for successful visioning: a great process, seasoned support and rich media for a deeper dive at your own pace.

101visionsWhat makes for a visionary? The word is subjective, and is used liberally.

Here’s my standard: someone who crafted a unique vision, inspired people around it and made it happen, with big, positive impact in the world.

Merriam-Webster describes a visionary as “having or marked by, foresight and imagination,” as in a visionary leader or invention.

I have spent much of my career admiring or working around visionaries, people who have carved out new ground and changed our lives. I’ve interviewed many of them during my work at C-SPAN, FORA.tv and ShowGo.tv. I’ve led teams with big goals and started companies. I’m curious:

What is the process of creation for refining a vision, motivating people with it and executing it?

101 Visions intends to explore that idea, via interviews with 100 people who have successful acted on their visions. I look forward to sharing those interviews with you on our 101Visions YouTube channel and blog. And, when we reach 100, I intend to publish them in a book with a template for the 101st vision: yours.

Subscribe to the blog and the channel. React, critique, challenge and participate. And share your stories. Have one for the blog? Contact me at 101visions@gmail.com.

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Visionary, Impresario Spike Wilner Transforming Live Music Economics

July 27, 2013 by briangruber No Comments

101visions-logo2I met Spike while hunting for the world’s coolest clubs for ShowGo.tv. Wherever I went, his club Smalls was named as a pioneer in livestreaming video, in his relationship with artists and in his emerging revenue model.  I first went to Smalls with my friend Nancy on a Sunday afternoon, I believe, with Spike at the pain, rain pouring down, and some drops falling perilously close to his Steinway B piano.

At Smalls, you don’t watch a concert–you feel it because it’s SO intimate. 60 people tops, down a staircase, past the bar, sit too close and, you might have your teeth knocked out by a trombone player. My favorite time to go was past midnight. Every night, Spike’s club does what NY jazz clubs used to do: go all night, with session artists and musicians fresh off other gigs stopping by with their hardware. I’ve gone to hundreds of concerts, but Smalls remains one of my very favorite places to go.

Spike is currently doing an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign to underwrite his bold, imaginative new concept in streaming, recording and distributing the music of the hundreds of artists who play the club.  More than 7,000 recordings and 500 artists have been recorded for the archive ,with a growing library of video recordings as well.  Here is Spike and company telling the story:

 

Find out more about the campaign at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-smalls-jazz-club-musician-revenue-sharing-project. Or read about it in a recent feature story in the New York Times.  From the Indiegogo site: “Our goal is to build a website for our subscription-based revenue sharing system. For a small subscription fee, fans will have unlimited access to an ever growing library of audio & video (approximately 21 shows per week).  Revenue will be pooled and distributed to all of the artists in the archive based on the number of minutes they get listened to quarterly.  All musicians on a date get credited – in this way popular sidemen can earn as much as leaders.  Direct download of specific dates will also be available.  If a fan chooses to directly download a date then the revenue will go directly to the artist rather than the pool.  As long as the artist’s content stays in the archive then the artist will continue to collect revenue.  The Smalls nightly live-video stream will be made available for free with a valid email registration.”

Spike has an office around the corner from the club and we stopped by there late one afternoon.  We talked about the Smalls brand (quality NYC jazz) and the tradition of jam sessions all over the city every night, all night, even 24 hours a day. The history of the club, the origin of its name, the early days with Mitch Borden (BYOB) and how musicians cultivated a subculture there. Spike was one of the first clubs to livestream shows and he is raising money now to upgrade production systems, among other things. Spike believes the Internet is giving us a tremendous opportunity to document huge amounts of music and make it available to worldwide audiences inexpensively. A new model with artists and club having a symbiotic relationship and copyright regime. His 5 desert island choices for must have music: Art Tatum, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Fats Waller.

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