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Is Andy Grove a better actor than you?

There's a clever look at leadership in the winter issue of Strategy + Business. It's posted as Shall I compare thee to an Andy Grove? The piece asserts that business and political leaders hit their heights when they create effective characters to present to people.  It then...

Tags: Leadership, Actor, Author, Leader, Michael Fitzgerald, Management

Blog posts 2008-01-21

Employee Performance: Continuous, Constructive Feedback Yields Results

Some employers might be convinced that an applicant who is personable knows all they need to do their job to our level of expectation. Not so. Think of yourself as a movie director. You choose the best possible actors and technicians you can afford for your film. Then with each...

Tags: Performance, Actor, Director, Performance Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-06-18

Media Communication as a Marketing Strategy for Technology Start-Up Firms

The aim of this paper is to explore and describe how and why young technology firms communicate their innovations, especially the way they communicate with journalists and different media outlets. Young firms are aware of the need to influence potential stakeholders around them such as customers, venture capitalists, suppliers that...

Tags: Marketing Strategy, Stanford University, Actor, Venture Capital, Marketing Research, Channel Management, Leadership, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Marketing, Management

White papers 2006-05-29

European Union as a Global Policy Actor: The Case of Desertification

In this paper, the central question is what kind of actor the EU is and whether it be considered as an international actor. When studying the position, role or the effect of the European Union in the world, the author argues that actorness is a useful concept. It offers a...

Tags: Actor, European Union

White papers 2002-09-07

Build It Right: Cleaner Energy for Better Buildings

Buildings have a large environmental footprint and influence the comfort and productivity. Growing the market for clean, affordable buildings will require numerous steps on the part of many actors, but it will have a significant payoff. As this paper shows, the building sector is a complex, diverse agglomeration of actors,...

Tags: Actor, Telecom & Utilities, Renewable Energy

White papers 2000-03-01

How to Make Successful Cold Calls

Most salespeople treat the cold call the same way as the actor's cold reading. And that's the problem. The actor has an excuse. There really isn't any way for the actor to know what to expect. There is no excuse, however, for the salesperson. The salesperson has methods available for...

Tags: Cold Calling, Salesperson, Actor, Sales Tools, Sales

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What Is a Backhoe?

Backhoes, which are also known as, rear actor or back actor is a piece of excavating equipment, which consists of a digging bucket at the end of an articulated arm. The articulated arm is also called a stick or a dipper. Modern backhoes are powered by hydraulic systems, which are...

Tags: Actor, Arm

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3 feel-good films

ON A FIRST DATE The Accidental Husband with Uma Thurman and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, September 5 In this clever romantic comedy, Emma learns she's been "accidentally" married. But while working on an annulment, she begins to question her chosen path. AT A...

Articles 2008-09-01

McAvoy to play gnomic Romeo

Home News IN BRIEF *The Scottish actor James McAvoy is in talks to be the voice of a gnome in an animated spoof of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set to music by Elton John. Juliet will be voiced by Emily Blunt, after Kate Winslet pulled out....

Articles 2008-08-21

EA Announces Star Studded Cast for Command and Conquer Red Alert 3

Top Actors and Actresses from Around the World Come Together to Form One of the Largest Ensemble Casts in the History of Video Games LEIPZIG, Germany -- During a press conference at Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced the all-star ensemble cast featured...

Articles 2008-08-20

Iran bans movie star from leaving for Hollywood

TEHRAN AFP — Iran has banned an award-winning young actress from leaving the country over her appearance in a star-studded Hollywood production, the state news agency IRNA said on Wednesday. "Golshifteh Farahani was banned from leaving by the authorities at the airport on Tuesday when she was about...

Articles 2008-08-20

TERENCE RIGBY

Actor admired by Harold Pinter WITH HIS burly physique, deep voice, and a special gift for suggesting underlying menace, Terence Rigby had a stage and screen career included several memorable heavies and monsters. On sceen he was a London villain in Get Carter (1971), opposed James...

Articles 2008-08-20

"Fuego en la Sangre" Actors Take Part in Publicity Campaigns for Vanidades and TVyNovelas

As a result of Grupo Televisa's efforts, twopromotional television campaigns will soon be airing in the United States.The first of the two campaigns will be promoting Vanidades and will feature"Fuego en la Sangre" actress Nora Salinas. The second campaign will promoteTVyNovelas with the support of actress and singer Ninel Conde....

Articles 2008-08-20

Birthdays for Wed., Aug. 20

TV journalist Connie Chung 62 Rock singer Robert Plant 60 Singer-songwriter John Hiatt ...

Articles 2008-08-20

Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation Institute Honor Legendary Actor and Humanitarian Kirk Douglas

Institute to Announce New Global Initiatives LOS ANGELES -- Steven Spielberg, Founder of the Shoah Foundation, will present the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Ambassadors for Humanity Award to legendary actor and humanitarian Kirk Douglas. Kirk Douglas will be honored for his commitment and support of the organization at...

Articles 2008-08-19

Julian Hall's Festival diary

One of the performances of the Fringe production of On The Waterfront, directed by Steven Berkoff, included an appearance from a pigeon that had accidentally got into the venue. Ironically the production contains a scene set in a pigeon loft, in which actors impersonate a feathered flock, so audience members...

Articles 2008-08-19

When beauty is smashed by Nazi horrors

Theatre RUHE The Hub Two actors interrupt a recital of Schubert lieder by the Collegium Vocale Gent to give adapted monologues of people who served in the SS during the Second World War; how they still agree with their decisions, and want to show what was...

Articles 2008-08-19

Bloom to portray diplomat with a difference

AN INTREPID SCOT, he has been called a modern-day Lawrence of Arabia, renowned for his work as a high-level diplomat and his enlightening travails across conflict regions in which he has lived humbly, wearing native dress among villagers. So inspirational is the life story of Rory Stewart,...

Articles 2008-08-19

Stars to shine on Toronto film festival

OTTAWA AFP — Actors Ben Kingsley, George Clooney, Peter O'Toole, directors Ethan and Joel Coen, and more star power than ever will be on hand for the upcoming 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday. The festival, which runs from September 4-13, will showcase 249 feature films...

Articles 2008-08-19

AmerenUE and The National Theatre for Children Again Team Up to Teach Kids About Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AmerenUE and The National Theatre for Children will again bring the live theatrical show "Boomerang Jack and the Unseen Green Machine" to 100 schools across Missouri this fall. Any school in AmerenUE's 57-county Missouri service territory can request the show, which is...

Articles 2008-08-19