Month: November 2011

You cannot afford to think of your relationship with the earth as a one-night stand.

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Understanding unity helps to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. There is no such thing as an isolated problem. Continue reading →

How To Bounce Back From A Big Mistake

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Here are a few tips on how to effectively bounce back — and grow stronger — when you make a bad call:

1. Own your mistake.

It’s too bad if circumstances were against you, or somebody you counted on failed you, or you just had a bad day. According to Justin Menkes’ wonderful book Better Under Pressure, truly great leaders don’t blame others when things go wrong. They instead have a high “sense of agency,” which is “the degree to which people attribute their circumstances and the outcomes they experience to being within their own control.” Continue reading →

Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration

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What is the one thing to keep in mind when making a film?


When you make a movie, always try to discover what the theme of the movie is in one or two words. Every time I made a film, I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In “The Godfather,” it was succession. In “The Conversation,” it was privacy. In “Apocalypse,” it was morality. Continue reading →