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JULY 14, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "Don’t Rely on Employees’ (Not So) Common Sense" "Edison was wrong about sleep" "How Drucker Thought About Complexity" "How to Use Tension and Conflict to Create Breakthrough Products "One Man’s Opinion: The Best Films About Leadership" "The Secret to Building Dream Teams" Adam Bryant American Film Institute Andy Molinsky “The Past (..)

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

It is clearly a provocative film. She won the Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role. I haven’t yet seen Melancholia. I intend to. Kirsten Dunst, who has been acting since she was 12 (actually, since she was about 3 or 4), has apparently given the performance of her life. Here’s a [.].

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APRIL 22, 2014

It is about the wartime effort of five great film directors: John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, and Frank Capra. I’m immersed in the wonderful book Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris. So many good things to say about what I am learning/experiencing as […].

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Lincoln: A President for the Ages Karl Weber, Editor and Contributor PublicAffairs/Participant Media (2012) Even without Spielberg’s great film with which it is associated, this book would still be a stunning achievement Those who have already seen Steven Spielberg’s film may be surprised to learn that this “companion volume” is much less about (..)

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JUNE 26, 2013

Bob''s blog entries David Chase Edie Falco Fresh Air''s television critic David Bianculli Gandolfini Through The Eyes Of Those He Worked With HBO James Gandolfini National Public Radio New York Film Critics Circle Awards NPR Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images Tony Soprano on The Sopranos WHYY'

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MARCH 25, 2016

Pixar films are not good at first, and our job is to make them so—to go, as I say, “from suck to not-suck.”
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 Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc. ——————– So, I went back though Creativity, Inc. again this morning.

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AUGUST 8, 2013

Polzer Lockheed''s "Skunk Works" McKinsey & Company Organization Science Talk the Disney animators who created classic films such as Snow White and Bambi The Manhattan Project Xerox PARC' .: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power their Organizations with Michael Slind Jeffrey T.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article about Meryl Streep and her latest film, The Iron Lady, prepared by the NPR staff and featured online. Streep stars as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in director Phyllida Lloyd’s latest film.

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MARCH 8, 2015

The film is released by 20th Century Fox, for an April 20 […]. I finished Nicholas Sparks‘ newest novel about a month before you can see it in theatres nationally. The Longest Ride (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) is an intriguing story about how a young and old couple’s lives become intertwined in an unforgettable way.

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JULY 4, 2014

Actually, there are three: o In person, fireworks launched from a barge offshore Martha’s Vineyard o Also in person, following Arthur Fiedler’s last performance with the Boston Pops in a park along the Charles River on July 4, 1976 o A fireworks display filmed in China To see the display in China, please click here. […].

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

I recently saw the film based on Michael Lewis’ bestselling book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, and starring Brad Pitt as the general manager of the Oakland Athletics. It is not necessary to be a baseball fan and/or knowledgeable about analytics to appreciate both the book and the film, although that helps [.].

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Usually one is asked to do music for films but this is for a totem […]. Who are the participants? “Here we are in my studio. What I am working on at the moment is a rough mix for a piece of music for a totem pole.

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MARCH 25, 2014

For over a decade Hunter has interviewed, collaborated with, and filmed, hundreds of leading business authors, executives, and business school faculty in an effort to assemble video learning solutions, as both an entrepreneur and later as a product developer for Skillsoft.

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JULY 7, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "Data is Worthless if You Don’t Communicate It" "Finding Your Passion In Work: 20 Awesome Quotes" "Nelson Mandela’s Legend: 7 Leadership Lessons" "One Man’s Opinion: The Best Films About Leadership" "Ten Most Popular Articles (3Q 2013)" "Why Your Company Should Use the Kickstarter Model to Innovate Adam Bryant Blogging on Business (..)

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MARCH 21, 2011

Haden includes a series of brief film clips from one of my five [.]. Here is an article written by Jeff Haden for BNET (March 18, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Roger Ebert reviewed films for the Chicago Sun-Times from 19677 until his death yesterday. I was born and raised in Chicago. For years, I delivered the Tribune in the morning and the Sun-Times after school. He and James Agee probably did more than anyone else ever has to nourish my understanding and appreciation of great [.].

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

There are two film versions, with Cogburn played by John Wayne in the original and by [.]. Marshal named Reuben J. Rooster) Cogburn who is described as fearless and tenacious when overcoming all manner of dangers while pursuing criminals such as Tom Chaney.

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DECEMBER 29, 2011

The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others Kristi Hedges AMACOM (2012) How and why powerful intentional presence can be a “personal game changer” As I began to read this book, I was reminded of one of my favorite songs in the musical and film, Chicago, sung by Amos Hart (played [.].

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AUGUST 20, 2013

The team wrote the script, hand-built the sets, then filmed and edited the clip themselves. A still from “Embrace Ambiguity,” a video by the old salts of IDEO’s New York office. To watch the video, please click here. * * * Fog is always present at IDEO, and not just at our San […].

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AUGUST 25, 2013

of the Oxford Princeton Program) in “The Corner Office” Compelling People Dave Kerpen HBR Huffington Post Hugh Martin (chief executive of Sensity Systems) in “The Corner Office” Inc.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Such a camera has no lens, viewfinder or shutter — just a pinhole at the front and film at the back. A 2012 re-enactment of the Battle of Shiloh as captured by a pinhole camera in Michie, Tenn. Images can be soft and require long exposures. More photographs are at civilwar150pinholeproject.com.No retouching or Photoshop processes [.].

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a library of talks, filmed at independently organized TEDx events. In her TEDx presentation, Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts talks about the positive and transformative power of human energy.

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others Kristi Hedges AMACOM (2012) How and why powerful intentional presence can be a “personal game changer” As I began to read this book, I was reminded of one of my favorite songs in the musical and film, Chicago, sung by Amos Hart (played [.].

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The recent Academy Awards presentations remind us again of the fact that film is among our most valuable as well as entertaining art forms. In an article written for the Wall Street Journal (February 12, 2011), Stefan Kanfer recommends his favorite books about what are indeed “remarkable Hollywood lives.”

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JANUARY 5, 2012

legendary film critic Roger Ebert has announced his top 20 movies of the year. With just days to go until the end of 2011 (Where did the year go???), Just as you’d expect from Ebert, his list runs the gamut from mainstream blockbusters to more obscure foreign or arthouse projects — with enough in the [.].

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APRIL 30, 2011

However, as he and Dan Weston would point out, on other occasions, as this brief film clip suggests…. I agree with Verne Harnish that speed can sometimes be a decisive competitive advantage. It has saved countless gazelles when lions are in the area.

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JUNE 27, 2013

To read the complete article and watch the film of Russell Foster’s program, please click here. Here is an excerpt from an article posted by Thu-Huong Ha at the TED website. Photo: James Duncan Davidson * * * Neuroscientist Russell Foster opens a session of TEDGlobal all about … us, asking the question: Why do […].

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Mark Davis is one of the most popular columnists and radio hosts. He regularly contributes to the Dallas Morning News, and you can hear his program on WBAP 820 AM / 98.7 FM each weekday from 8:30-11:00 a.m. He is provocative, insightful, and usually correct. But not this time – [.].

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JANUARY 13, 2013

Joey Reiman is CEO and founder of BrightHouse. Over the past 25 years, Joey has worked with leadership at The Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s and Newell Rubbermaid, and has emerged as one of the nation’s foremost visionaries and leading authorities on thinking and marketing.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Here you go – this is my list of the Best of 2011 in a number of categories. Best Business Book: The 3rd Alternative by Stephen Covey (New York: Free Press) – this book explains and promotes a tired “win-win” philosophy in a fresh way, opening up applications in multiple contexts for many people who [.].

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JULY 10, 2011

“I believe that any problem can be solved with a picture. And that anybody can draw it.” Dan Roam is the author of two international bestsellers, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures and Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures, both published by [.].

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

On Friday, I saw My Week with Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monore. She was nominated for an Oscar for this performance. The movie was based upon a book written by Colin Clark, entitled The Prince, the Showgirl and Me (St. Martins Press, 1996). The script included additional material from his follow-up book, My [.].

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JUNE 9, 2012

Need, Speed, and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems Vijay V.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Joey Reiman: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris Joey Reiman is CEO and founder of BrightHouse.

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OCTOBER 29, 2011

“I believe that any problem can be solved with a picture. And that anybody can draw it.” Dan Roam is the author of two international bestsellers, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures and Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures, both published by [.].

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MARCH 17, 2011

Here’s an excerpt from an interview of Tim Ferriss conducted by Herb Schaffner for BNET (March 10, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Tim Ferriss‘ first book, The [.].

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JUNE 21, 2011

Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape Henry Chesbrough Harvard Business Press (2006) Innovation requires an open mind…and the courage to challenge “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.”

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