I’m writing this early in the morning with the Beatles playing in the background, listening to some of their earliest originals and wondering how they wrote and produced all the music that they did and swept many of us up in a groundswell of awe and joy while also asking us why we couldn’t write a song like “Girl” or “I’ll Follow The Sun” or the very much overlooked “I’ll Be Back” or, well, just something that came even close to what they were doing before Strawberry Fields F

I’ve been talking about teamwork for a few years now and how the type of teamwork where all the parts fit might not lead to instant fame and riches, but it lays down the groundwork from where the unexpected can grow. What I have been seeing now for years is the lack of real teamwork, because maybe the different parts don’t really fit for one reason or another, but mainly because of an “imbalance” in talent and different levels of experience and maybe even tolerance. Often, I

We called ourselves “Walter and Jack” after the two characters in “The Odd Couple”, and the name stuck because it was true: We were Asia’s odd couple of the music industry, and also, very possibly, the most successful. It worked to have one of us who talked softly and carried a big stick and the other who enjoyed being a big stick and having some thinking he was a whack job who had a short fuse.  Norman (Cheng) and I read the tea leaves extremely well. We almost magically and