Technique Trumps Scheme

September 19, 2018  |  Posted by: Rick Torseth  |  No Comments

Sonny Rollins is probably the greatest tenor saxophone player in all of jazz. His journey from a novice eight-year-old player to today owes as much to effort as to talent.  When it comes to building leadership capacity, his life illustrates how technique trumps scheme. But what is technique and what is scheme? The Oxford dictionary defines them this way: Scheme: A large-scalesystematic plan or arrangement for attaining some particular … [READ MORE]