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...

At the ICF conference in November, I had a great conversation the Dr. Carol Kaufman, a therapist, coach and Ass't Professor at Harvard about a whole bunch of stuff, but I was moved by this articulate statement about the differences...

THE STRIKE ISN'T CHANGING HOLLYWOOD . . . The deep changes we're seeing and contemplating have been progressing for years in quiet, lava-like slow motion. These changes ARE being highlighted and accelerated by the strike. The internet has existed for...

This just in. David Milch, writer and creator of NYPD BLUE and my fave from last year, JOHN FROM CINCINATTI, did three days of talking about writers and writing back in December. I caught the 3rd day and left inspired....

I was interviewed yesterday for Fortune Small Business News, as seen on CNN.com. Click Here to take you there: The article says that "Writers' strike cripples small businesses." Here's the "good part." (where they finally talk to me.) -- The...