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Jerry Colonna, an investor turned executive coach, asks his clients this question, “How are you complicit in creating the conditions you say you don’t want?”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Charles Broskoski | Are.na
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He was an even-keeled former game show host from the Midwest who specialized in light banter and easygoing punchlines. Standing with military posture, he never appeared to be working that hard and the biggest laughs in his monologue were often in the silent pauses after a joke bombed. How could someone so robotic and bland become a late-night giant... See more
Johnny Carson and the Fantasy of America
Albert: The biggest influence was Jack Benny. Because of his minimalism. And the way he got laughs. He was at the center of a storm, he let his players do the work, and just by being there made it funny. That was mind-boggling to me.
Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
Seinfeld: It’s very important to know what you don’t like. A big part of innovation is saying, “You know what I’m really sick of?” For me, that was talk shows where music plays, somebody walks out to a desk, shakes hands with the host, and sits down.
Daniel McGinn • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager
I have a gut sense that a Paramount Global overseen by Sumner Redstone , instead of his daughter, Shari , would have reached a different conclusion. After all, what is now known as Paramount Global was built on Sumner’s litigation risk-reward calculus.
Are You There, Aryeh? It’s Me, Shari…
His father, John Jenney, was a horn salesman who, according to family legend, was the basis for Harold Hill in The Music Man, the Broadway musical written by fellow Mason City native and family friend Meredith Willson. That’s why, in later years, Kay often referred to Jack as “the son of the Music Man.”