David Brownstein's blog

What is Leadership? (In Hollywood and Beyond)

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:59:08 -0700

Some Riffing on a new definition of Leadership

DEFINITION/RIFF #1:

Leadership is the art of facilitating collaborative creation toward a powerful goal.

Leaders guide and empower a team of willing participants towards a visualized, articulated, actualized and constantly evolving end.

Leaders bring forth a deeply accessed vision, nurture their teams by facilitating inspiration and collaboration and manage results through supportive accountability.

Leadership can be practiced and applied by anyone at any level of a team or organization.

Leadership growth involves an ongoing process of developing the skills and awareness' for inspiring, nurturing and managing collaborative work in progress.

My Question For WGA President Patric Verrone: (And his Answer)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:48:12 -0700

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 at TroyGould, Coach (and friend) Sherry Ziff Lester and me.

THE LEADERSHIP LEARNING?

Of course I'm always listening for the leadership opportunities and ways we can do things differently in Hollywood. In the beginning of our conversation Patric was explaining the events and months preceding the vote and decision to strike. Obviously lots of frustrating time passed that led to the lengthy strike.

BUT HERE WAS MY QUESTION TO HIM:

BROWNSTEIN: Patric, obviously, it was a successful strike and you got great things. With what you learned by the end of the strike —if you could go back in time now—what might have worked differently in July that you discovered in January?

Creative Career Transition - Force Majeure Special!

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:18:36 -0800

Hi there HRTS Members. I'm presenting a One Day workshop on Jan 26 that will help creative and executives take charge of their next career move.

I'm offering a special price to HRTS members in recognition of the 3 month anniversary of the strike and the onset of Force Majeure contract cancellations.

CAREER UNCERTAINTY IN HOLLYWOOD?

With all the career uncertainty that strike has created I felt it was a good time to help creative people in Los Angeles to stop worrying about when the strike would be over and get focused on the new opportunities that we’ve been thinking about but for some reason were not getting around to.

HRTS Network Chiefs Luncheon - my Rant

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:58:12 -0700

Hi there, I'm a new member here, and i went to the Network Chiefs Lunch last week. I posted about it on my Hollywood Leadership Blog here:

http://hollywoodcoaching.typepad.com/the_new_hollywood_leader/

Basically, Barry Sonnenfeld was not my favorite moderator.

Let me know what you think.

David Brownstein

Executive Coach

http://www.HollywoodCoaching.com