Emmy and Aacta Award-winning producer turned screen sector executive coach
Ellenor Cox provides insights, tips and strategies on how to provide feedback and mentorship, master difficult conversations and keep a team motivated.
There’s a saying in the film business: No one outside the industry knows what the producer actually does and no one in the industry wants to be the producer.
Why the role of the producer is misunderstood is relatively straightforward. It’s easy to imagine the director on set calling ‘Action!’, but what on earth is that producer person doing all day on the phone or the computer?
However, it’s insightful that there is a reticence for this leadership role from insiders who better understand the nuances of the different roles on set.
The main reason for this reticence is the producer is the person tasked with having the toughest conversations of all: be it the...
Ellenor Cox provides insights, tips and strategies on how to provide feedback and mentorship, master difficult conversations and keep a team motivated.
There’s a saying in the film business: No one outside the industry knows what the producer actually does and no one in the industry wants to be the producer.
Why the role of the producer is misunderstood is relatively straightforward. It’s easy to imagine the director on set calling ‘Action!’, but what on earth is that producer person doing all day on the phone or the computer?
However, it’s insightful that there is a reticence for this leadership role from insiders who better understand the nuances of the different roles on set.
The main reason for this reticence is the producer is the person tasked with having the toughest conversations of all: be it the...
- 9/8/2021
- by Ellenor Cox
- IF.com.au
We continue our examination of the business book The One Minute Manager with an interview of author Ken Blanchard. What did he write a business fable rather than a nonfiction book, and what makes a good business book stand out?
What was the impetus for you to write The One Minute Manager?
I met Spencer Johnson at a cocktail party. He had written a bunch of children's books as part of a series called Value Tales--The Value of Determination: The Story of Helen Keller, The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur, The Value of Humor: The Story of Will Rogers. My wife met Spencer first and hand-carried him over to me. She said, "You guys ought to write a children's book for managers. They won't read anything else." So that was really the impetus for our book. I invited him to a seminar I was doing...
What was the impetus for you to write The One Minute Manager?
I met Spencer Johnson at a cocktail party. He had written a bunch of children's books as part of a series called Value Tales--The Value of Determination: The Story of Helen Keller, The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur, The Value of Humor: The Story of Will Rogers. My wife met Spencer first and hand-carried him over to me. She said, "You guys ought to write a children's book for managers. They won't read anything else." So that was really the impetus for our book. I invited him to a seminar I was doing...
- 2/10/2011
- by Kevin Ohannessian
- Fast Company
Can a company be managed in a simpler way? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from The One Minute Manager, by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. What does this revered business fable tell us about setting up goals at your job?
"One of my One Minute Goals was this: Identify performance problems and come up with solutions which, when implemented, will turn the situation around.
"When I first came to work here I spotted a problem that needed to be solved, but I didn't know what to do. So I called the One Minute Manager. When he answered the phone, I said, Sir, I have a problem. Before I could get another word out, he said, Good! That's what you've been hired to solve. Then there was a dead silence on the other end of the phone.
"One of my One Minute Goals was this: Identify performance problems and come up with solutions which, when implemented, will turn the situation around.
"When I first came to work here I spotted a problem that needed to be solved, but I didn't know what to do. So I called the One Minute Manager. When he answered the phone, I said, Sir, I have a problem. Before I could get another word out, he said, Good! That's what you've been hired to solve. Then there was a dead silence on the other end of the phone.
- 2/8/2011
- by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
- Fast Company
Ready to Learn: Some 7,000 pastors and laypeople filled the Willow Creek sanctuary for its Global Leadership Summit in August. | Photograph by Saverio Truglia
"Messing With People's Minds" Willow Creek pastor Bill Hybels, right, with association president Jim Mellado and summit producer Corinne Ferguson | Photograph by Saverio Truglia
Willow Creek, one of the nation's largest and most powerful megachurches, leads evangelicals by learning from the business world's best.
Jack Welch called the other day. He wanted to talk about his friend Bill. Forget the notion that the ex-ge chief is a curmudgeon -- the guy just gushed. Bill "is a man with enormous capability, a man who can rally a team around a vision." Bill runs a fast-growing organization based just outside Chicago that today has affiliates on every continent except Antarctica. "I have my four Es," Welch says, referring to the four leadership qualities he looks for in executives: Someone...
"Messing With People's Minds" Willow Creek pastor Bill Hybels, right, with association president Jim Mellado and summit producer Corinne Ferguson | Photograph by Saverio Truglia
Willow Creek, one of the nation's largest and most powerful megachurches, leads evangelicals by learning from the business world's best.
Jack Welch called the other day. He wanted to talk about his friend Bill. Forget the notion that the ex-ge chief is a curmudgeon -- the guy just gushed. Bill "is a man with enormous capability, a man who can rally a team around a vision." Bill runs a fast-growing organization based just outside Chicago that today has affiliates on every continent except Antarctica. "I have my four Es," Welch says, referring to the four leadership qualities he looks for in executives: Someone...
- 12/6/2010
- by Jeff Chu
- Fast Company
What do you dread at work? Maybe it’s filling out expense reports. Making a cold call to a new lead. Giving a performance review to your employee Chester, who’s prone to tearing up at the first hint of negative feedback. Whatever it is, you avoid it. You procrastinate. You check Google News, you check your fantasy football stats. You check Google News again.
There’s a way out, though. Let me show you how it works in the context of housecleaning, which is something that I absolutely dread. It’s called the 5-Minute Rescue, and it was proposed by an online housecleaning guru called the “Fly Lady.” You set a kitchen timer to 5 minutes. Then you rush to the dirtiest room in your house--the one you’d never let a guest see--and, as the timer ticks down, you start clearing a path, and when the timer finally buzzes,...
There’s a way out, though. Let me show you how it works in the context of housecleaning, which is something that I absolutely dread. It’s called the 5-Minute Rescue, and it was proposed by an online housecleaning guru called the “Fly Lady.” You set a kitchen timer to 5 minutes. Then you rush to the dirtiest room in your house--the one you’d never let a guest see--and, as the timer ticks down, you start clearing a path, and when the timer finally buzzes,...
- 5/19/2010
- by Dan Heath
- Fast Company
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