EXT - DAY - NYC STREET One of my first great jobs in NY was as an apprenticeeditor. I was hired to "schlep" dailies from the lab tothe office, then off for coding, then back for syncing,then out for telecine...

Great article in the NY Times about Jon Stewart and The Daily Show as they prepare for their official presence at the Democratic Convention in Denver."In fact, Mr. Stewart regards comedy as a kind of catharsis machine, a therapeutic filter...

What are the essential skills, qualities and awareness' that you wish you could magically clone and implant into your company's future leaders? The qualities are often silently embedded into the vision of a companies founders, their successful CEO, creative directors...

(I wrote this on the topic/challenge of our great songwriters to stay lyrically relevant in the later stages of their careers. This was after watcing "Amazing Journey" the great documentary about The WHO on the plane to NY. (Virgin America...

I've been thinking a lot about how a new form of leadership is being born, discovered, or perhaps like gems hidden underground, uncovered when it was always there the whole time. SPLITSVILLE My professional career was generally split between Hollywood...

To contradict one of my favorite movies, Fight Club, the first rule of leadership is: Always talk about leadership. HERE'S WHY: The first step of leadership is really to begin becoming aware of leadership. Observing it in your self, in...

(This is a work in progress. I'm still synthesizing and simplifying many of my notes and writing about leadership over the past few years. My apologies in advance for any potential redundancies.) Hope you like it, here it goes: DEFINITION/RIFF...

As a culture, and as a community, we are only recently beginning to understand, ask ourselves, and define, or actually redefine, leadership. The word's been around, and we hear it often. Yet the composite snooze we experience around the word...

I had the pleasure of doing a web-radio interview last week on one of my favorite topics: Hollywood Leadership and the Writer's Guild Strike. Hosted by Coach Tom Floyd, guests were Patric Verrone, President of the WGA, Jonathan Handel, attorney...

In the midst of hunkering down to write my new leadership book, I got notice that I'd been selected as a Top Thought Leader by Leadership Excellence Magazine. Read on for my full press release on the matter. "Top 100...