Last night I had the fun experience of visiting the set of American Idol for the live taping and behind the scenes look. It’s so easy to forget (when you’ve been out of the behind-the-scenes loop for a bit) the enormous amount of work and detail that goes into what the general public views in [...]
The American Idol
March 19th, 2010Search Tags: amount, creative industries, creativity and innovation, decision, Erica, fun, hour, Idols, innovative team, lighting designers, Los Angeles, mind, musical directors, production, production assistants, talent, team, team building ideas, team creation, uphill struggle, warm group, work
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mistakes on my radar
March 9th, 2010We live in a time when the ability to create & innovate will be the ultimate success ticket. Our society and economy has moved away from the industrial arena and into the service arena. We spend more time servicing creations than actually creating. But that’s been changing of late. Entrepreneurship is [...]
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what it actually takes to succeed
March 2nd, 2010A positive mindset. That’s it. That’s really all it takes to succeed. Because, with a positive mindset you will
Attract teams that want to collaborate
Encourage creativity within yourself and others
Identify team members who are flexible and think outside the box
Problem solve effectively instead of in a reactionary manner
Encourage people to want to be on your team [...]
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Buzzing about the Tiger… and others
February 22nd, 2010“The hunger for Tiger’s tale about Tiger’s tail is far from satisfied,” says Brian Lowry from Variety
I don’t know about you, but at the end of the day, Tiger is still the golf genius child-protégé he was to me a few months before all the scandal. Really, how many of us actually care about [...]
Search Tags: behavior, coaching, leadership, learning, mistakes, motivation, olympics, success, Tiger Woods
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Sometimes things don’t go as planned.
February 18th, 2010Sometimes things don’t go as planned. In fact sometimes it seems as though ‘sometimes’ happens all the time. That is, things don’t often seem to go as planned. Last week I had a terror of an experience with my email account through my web-hosting site. And then there was the broadcast of an important televised [...]
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