One Of Ones: Lessons From Clive Davis

Over the better part of a century in the music business, Clive Davis has signed some of the greatest artists of all time, from Janis Joplin to Whitney Houston. It’s earned him the reputation as “the man with the golden ears.”

The primary key to his success hasn’t necessarily been those ears, but what’s between them. And fostering the reputation of having an otherworldly knack for discovering artists, despite no formal music training of his own, has paid incredible dividends.

“People are saying I h...