5 things Star Trek’s Captain Picard can teach you about leadership

IT’S NOT ABOUT BEING RIGHT
Or being strong. It’s about being human. Despite his position and formidable gifts, Picard was incredibly humble. He never boasted. He was prone to observations such as, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.”

So back to the date I’ll be waiting for. It’s the 60th anniversary of Jacques Piccard’s voyage to explore a world no human had ever been before to seek out life in the depths of our oceans. And it’s the beginning of the next chapter of Jean-Luc Picard’s leadership adventure.

Full article at Fastcompany

Hollywood Bets On a Future of Quick Clips and Tiny Screens

The experiments get weirder from there. Steven Soderbergh is shooting Wireless, his cliffhangery suspense thing, his usual way—with a high-end digital camera aimed at actors acting. But since a lot of the character interaction takes place via phone, every actor also shoots their scenes with devices that capture their texting and video chatting. Their phones capture them through the front-facing camera, and another device strapped to the back shoots outward, as if through the rear-facing camera, for the phone’s POV. Soderbergh’s landscape edit will be the traditional one; the portrait edit will use the phone footage. You, the nominal viewer, will flip-flop between the two.

Complete article here at Wired

It’s a mad mad mad mad world

Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a mad mad mad mad world’ is a wild comedy caper. It has ludicrous situations and far-fetched comic stunts. But what’s really amazing about the film are the subtle themes that are showcased. Here are a few examples.

  1. An honest cop who decides to stray after all.
  2. A woman in a unhappy marriage suddenly ‘dreams’ a way out.
  3. Greed of common men when put in uncommon situations
‘W’ marks the spot

Touted as a classic, the movie has inspired many other movies in whole and in parts.