Topic: Kevin Costner

Generating Buy-In

Three elements other than a good product that are essential in launching a successful new ventureREAD»

Leadership: Stand Up and Be Counted

Dances with Wolves was a critical and box office success. It established creator and star, Kevin Costner, as an actor with exceptional talent as well as a gifted director. Costner was a bankable star before Dances with Wolves but had ...READ»

BP Begins Fighting Oil Spill With Kevin Costner's Oil-Separating Centrifuges

BP has been toying with the idea of using actor Kevin Costner's Ocean Therapy technology to clean up the Gulf oil disaster for the past month. Once we got over the Waterworld jokes, we realized that the centrifuge-like device is ...READ»

If You Build It, We Will Come

In "Field of Dreams," Kevin Costner's cornfield whispers, "If you build it, he will come," and sets off a series of events that change the lives of Costner and those around him. While talking corn is movie magic, the idea of expressing a desire in order to see it fulfilled is a powerful one. And if the expressed desire comes from a Fortune 500 company, it can help change the world.READ»

Attention, BP: It's Time to Get Creative With Oil Spill Solutions

BP has failed at its numerous attempts to stop the growing Gulf oil spill, which has now reached delicate wetlands around the Mississippi River. And while the oil company has managed to slow the spill slightly with a mile-long ...READ»

What We Learned In The New Economy: Converge Those Actionables, Dude!

Did you speak New Economy? The vocabulary now seems strangely quaint, if not outright asinine. Here's a helpful glossary for those who have conveniently forgotten.READ»

You Have to Start Meeting Like This!

We work -- therefore we meet. But why do so few of our meetings meet our expectations? Michael Begeman may be the world's foremost expert on the business world's most universal ritual. Here's his short course on running meetings that will work for you.READ»

Suddenly, Everyone's an Expert on Fixing Oil Spills

James Cameron, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, newspapers, professionals and probably your mom have proposed solutions to the Gulf crisis. Could this kind of group think really work?READ»

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You Have to Start Meeting Like This!

We work -- therefore we meet. But why do so few of our meetings meet our expectations? Michael Begeman may be the world's foremost expert on the business world's most universal ritual. Here's his short course on running meetings that will work for you.READ»

The Company Men

The angst of white-collar men and their families in the age of corporate layoffs -- sound familiar? Up in the Air rode the downbeat theme to $163 million at the box office and the 2009 Golden Globe for best screenplay. Now Ben ...READ»

The Picture Frame Worth 1,000 Bookings

Software that puts your best image forward.READ»

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The Ballet of Business

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." -- Mikhail Baryshnikov My wife and I aren't stereotypical Little League parents. We don't push coaches to put our kids in the first string, and ...READ»

A Prosperous Future for Wholesale DVDs

A Prosperous Future for Wholesale DVDsI am completely in love with wholesale DVDs! I mean, do you recall VHS? Large awkward slow things. "Be kind, rewind"? I'm going to do that once out of a hundred times! Special features on ...READ»

The Ballet of Business

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." -- Mikhail Baryshnikov My wife and I aren't stereotypical Little League parents. We don't push coaches to put our kids in the first string, and ...READ»

The Leading Edge - President elect Barack Obama - Silomaster

I first wrote this in August, 2007 for Fast Company.  It was about the fact that we have been turned into silos.  This has enabled us to focus on our areas of expertise, but has hurt the ability to cooperatie, collaberate and ...READ»

Ultimate Taxi

What distinguishes this taxi from the standard fare?READ»

Silomastery and Mergermastery

Until you rise above the fray of WIIFM ("what’s in it for me")-minded participants, everyone will put their needs above that of their company.READ»

FC.Net - Getting Started

Are you born to lead?READ»

Motorhead Messiah

Johnathan Goodwin can get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental, cut emissions by 80%, and double the horsepower. Does the car business have the guts to follow him?READ»

The Short, Shady History of Hollywood South

One New Orleans industry survived Katrina: its booming film business. Now the lawsuits are flying, and the old rot is setting in fast. Another sad tale from the city that just can't stop itself.READ»

Golf Course

Butch Harmon, guru to Tiger Woods, teaches that winning is all in your head -- in golf or in business.READ»

UGG boots are iconic of this female phenomenon

Historically, a women's political advance is also expressed artistically by redefining, refiguring or even dismantling the stream vogue norms. Power shifts are reflected in wardrobes, and miniskirts and  uggs boots are iconic of ...READ»

The Devil’s Paint Brush within Organizational Leadership

The Philosophy of LeaderShaping, the off-spring of the “Six Levels of Leadership,” depends heavily on “Communications” and “Intelligence” to be successful. When one or both of these elements becomes compromised, the result ...READ»