American Public Media's "Marketplace" ran a commentary by K.C. Cole of the USC Annenberg School about the benefits of a relaxed management style. Cole interviewed Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis for her piece. "Smart leaders gather great people and simply let them do. No bulky chains of command. Few rules and lots of play. Failure encouraged. Persuasion valued over coercion," is what Bennis believes makes leaders successful in their environment…….
Month: July 2010
Stacy Smith in Snarky’s Cinemachine
Research conducted by Faculty Fellow Stacy Smith was cited in a blog post by Snarky's Cinemachine on action hero franchises…….
A Congressman Reaches Out — And Ducks!
RESEDA, Calif. — Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from the 27th District of California in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, is a congressman who is obviously not afraid of his constituents. Many are these days, but Sherman takes out advertisements in local newspapers urging people to come and reason with (or yell at) him at "Town Hall" meetings. Several hundred, maybe a thousand, did just that last Sunday afternoon in the auditorium of Reseda High School. He is good at this. He has done 140 of them. There are cookies and punch outside the hall. He introduces his……
Bennis at USC Architecture Exec Ed
Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis will be a guest speaker at the USC Architecture Executive Education program in July, lecturing on the power of credibility and the role of leadership in a creative environment…….
Adam Clayton Powell Daily Breeze
Daily Breeze quoted Adam Clayton Powell III, Senior Fellow and USC Vice Provost for Globalization, on USC's partnership with Songdo Global University Campus in South Korea…….
IPE co-founder to speak at visual sociology conference
Jim Hubbard, co-founder of the Institute for Photographic Empowerment, will be presenting at the International Visual Sociology Association conference in Bologna, Italy, on July 20-23, 2010. The theme of this year's conference is "Thinking, Doing, and Publishing Visual Research: The State of the Field?"……
Bennis in University World News
University World News (U.K.) cited Warren Bennis, Distinguished Fellow, regarding the differences between running a corporation and running a research university…….
Schell article – Google’s China compromise stuns observers
Orville Schell, Senior Fellow is interviewed for the Financial Times regarding China's renewal of its internet content provider license with Google. Earlier this year, Google threatened to pull its services from China if searches from Chinese citizens continued to be censored by the government. Schell believes that this renewal shows a compromise about Google's services has been reached by both parties…….
Law & Order: SVU receives two Emmy nominations
Congratulations to CCLP Senior Fellow Neal Baer as well as the cast and crew of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on their two 2010 Emmy nominations including Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series (Mariska Hargitay) and Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series (Ann-Margret)…….
Cowan video featured in World News
Top Secret Talks – A Conversation with Geoffrey Cowan (CCLP Director) & Bob Shrum is featured on the World News Network…….