By Dave McNary for Variety.com “The Blind Side” producer Alcon Entertainment is cooking up “Chicken Soup for the Soul,” acquiring film and TV rights to the inspirational brand of books. The banner plans to finance and produce a feature film with “Chicken Soup for the Soul” in the title. The movie will be produced by Kerner Entertainment Cos. […]
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By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Dave Logan for CBSnews.com (MoneyWatch) I’m at war with corporate mediocrity, and sadly, mediocrity seems to be winning. The cure, I believe, is for companies to loosen their fear of unleashed creativity in individuals that don’t fit the cookie cutter mold. Company leaders can make an immediate impact by taking three
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Chicken Soup for the Soul rereleases the original bestseller, with 20 bonus stories for the next 20 years COS COB, Conn. – It’s been twenty years since the release of the original Chicken Soup for the Soul and it continues to change lives, after selling more than 8 million copies just in the U.S.
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Produced by Tracy Oppenheimer for ReasonTV, camera by Alex Manning. “People who play video games have much better computational skills, much better logic skills, much better search and cognitive skills than kids who don’t,” says Nolan Bushnell, author of Finding the Next Steve Jobs, founder of Brainrush, and the entrepreneur often described as the “father
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By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Pablos, and Nathan Myhrvold for Ieee.org Have you seen a vending machine lately? Most are still pretty basic: Put in some cash and out comes a can or package. But the most advanced models have computer processors and touch-screen displays that let you customize your order to a remarkable degree. Touch-screen drink
By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, Dave Logan for CBS MoneyWatch (MoneyWatch) Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, wrote, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” He was referring to virtually anything, and his wisdom has made companies measurement obsessed. Like anything taken to an extreme, measuring things at the wrong time, or
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By Laura Entis for Inc.com Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari and Jobs’ first boss, tells Inc. what not to do in a job interview if you want to hire creative talent. Back in 1974, Steve Jobs didn’t look like your typical successful job applicant: a 19-year-old college dropout, with a tenuous commitment to basic hygiene,
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By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, Jill Belconis as seen on Lean In. I’ve continually been presented with the opportunity to be the “first woman” throughout my career. When I graduated from college, I was the first woman hired to work in sales at IBM’S data processing division in my branch. Many skeptics didn’t believe that a
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In Silicon Valley legend Nolan Bushnell’s first book, he explains how to find and hire employees who have the potential to be the next Steve Jobs. Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari in 1972, and two years later hired Steve Jobs, as well as many other creatives over the course of his five
By Kelly Clay for Forbes, and CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, James Sun James Sun – CEO of Pirq and former finalist on Donald Trump‘s reality TV series, The Apprentice – recently spoke to a full house at the Seattle coworking space, Thinkspace about becoming an entrepreneur. Sun, who has secured millions in funding as an entrepreneur, spoke not only about Trump’s hair (it’s real) but
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