Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.
Will Your Organization Still Be Here in Ten Years?
It's a familiar story: A company rises to become an industry leader. Competitors try to emulate it. Analysts rave about it. The CEO's picture is splashed across magazine covers. Then the company stumbles, profits erode, and the stock plummets. How does this happen? Why do good companies so often go bad? More important, what can you do to prevent it from happening to your company?
In Revival of the Fittest, Donald N. Sull takes a provocative look at corporate failure and proposes a practical new model for effecting change that can vastly increase your organization's lifespan. Ironically, argues Sull, leaders sow the seeds of failure during a company's most successful times, when they make a set of commitments-whether to a core strategy, a key customer, or an innovative manufacturing method-that constitute the company's success formula. Managers become so married to the formula that they can't divorce themselves from it when the competitive situation changes. They respond to the future by doing more of what worked in the past-a phenomenon Sull calls "active inertia."
Based on extensive global research into successful and failed transformations across many industries, Revival of the Fittest introduces a three-step model for making transforming commitments-actions that prevent managers from reinforcing old behaviors in the face of change. Sull identifies five areas in which transforming commitments can be anchored-strategic frames, processes, relationships, resources, and values-and provides diagnostic tests, hands-on tools, and real company examples to show how managers can:
In an unpredictable marketplace, commitments can make and break a company. But Sull shows that corporate demise is not inevitable. Through transforming commitments, revival of the fittest is possible-and managers can make the difference.
Donald N. Sull is Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management area at Harvard Business School.
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the leadership commitment dilemma.......2005-07-03
Donald Sull is Associate Professor of Management at London Business School.
Leadership is about making commitments and seeing them through.
There are two dangers with commitment making. The first danger is that the commitments fail. Sull argues that the second danger is that the commitment succeeds. A series of successful commitments can be bundled up in what Sull calls a company's success formula. In an every changing world, leaders must guard against being prisoners of their own success formulas.
The most interesting part of this book is his creative pairing of similar companies in similar industries who took different paths of either honoring or destroying their success formulas. The stories of Firestone versus Goodyear in the tire industry have extraordinary value for us today and are well worth reading.
What does this mean for those who serve on Boards of Directors?
BOARDS WANT TO HIRE CHAMPIONS
Boards want to hire champions. Champions are bred to be decisive and self-confident. They love making commitments and seeing them through.
As Donald Sull argues, when champions make commitments you have a double edge problem. It is predictable that champions will have difficulty admitting that their commitments no longer fit the times. Indeed this trait is so predictable I called it the LBJ Effect in honor of the American President who escalated commitment to a failing war once it became clear that the war could not be won.
LESSONS FOR REVIVAL OF THE FITTEST FOR BOARDS OF DIRECTORS.
1. Good CEOs are champions. Champions believe in themselves and their commitments.
2. In the absence of a strong countervailing force, some CEO Champions will rigidly hold on to what Sull calls the success formula when it ought to be thrown away. We even take the more extreme position that in the absence of a strong countervailing force, champions will pour more resources into an inappropriate success formula.
3. This strong countervailing force is called the Board of Directors.
SETTING THE RIGHT CULTURAL TONE
At a cultural level, the LBJ Effect can be fought by the board insisting on a culture where it is acceptable to fail, to learn from mistakes, and to try again. It is a culture where "mid course correction" is not necessarily a sin and "stick-to-itness" is not necessarily a virtue.
Perhaps the most famous example of a corporate culture that supports this notion is Johnson & Johnson. On the desks of most executives within the J&J organization is a framed one-page document called, "Our Credo."
The J&J Credo is a series of principles that govern management decisions:
When there was a concern that a batch of Tylenol had been poisoned, a division manager unilaterally ordered all bottles of Tylenol off the U.S. market. That action was taken without consulting corporate headquarters. It was justified to management on the basis of the credo. Senior management at J&J backed the local manager and the employees were enormously proud of it.
This use of a corporate values statement is not unique at J&J. We have consulted at other companies with credos. And some of these companies had problems as severe as the Tylenol crisis. But in no other company would a middle level manager make a major decision based on an esoteric company principle. With respect to failure, the J&J Credo states:
"Employees must feel free to make suggestions and complaints....We must experiment with new ideas. Research must be carried on, innovative programs developed, and mistakes paid for."
In other words, failure is not "bad." It is part of the necessary price for being innovative.
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Boards seeking to influence CEOs to make mid-course corrections have a semantic problem. Leaders must be convinced that mid-course corrections will not be labeled as "indecisive" or "waffling." Such negative words are inconsistent with a positive sense of self. On the other hand, adaptability in the face of changing circumstances is consistent with a positive self-concept.
Some CEOs deride Sarbanes Oxley as an example of legislative overkill. They say that it will move the board/CEO relationship into an adversarial stance. Such a stance will only harm shareholders and waste resources. Sull's perspective is powerful people are only too human. And they are all too human in predictable ways.
A valid checks and balances system should keeps the LBJ Effect from getting out of hand and help companies decide when it is time to destroy their own success formula before competition does it for them. Maryanne Peabody and Laurence J. Stybel,Ed.D. are co-founders of Board Options, Inc. Its mission is to increase Board effectiveness through the application of practical behavioral Science.
Successful Second Acts.......2004-01-26
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in 1940 that there are no second acts in American Lives. Professor Sull's witty, crystalline prose in Revival of the Fittest offers a rebuttal. Sull's case-studies of corporate rebounds and managerial reinventions provides a global array of second acts.
Contrary to the following review, Sull's wise reflections, his acute hindsight, on what separates mid-course corporate successes from failures is full of insights, though not quick-fixes or one-size-fits-all makeovers.
Rather, Sull provides an array of diagnostic tools for managers, helping them isolate the "active inertia"--a term he has coined and that is gaining currency among business theorists--and sift through the vast horizon of possibilities and risks managers in crisis must face.
A multi-disciplinary work with a global perspective, Revival of the Fittest is both informative and potentially transforming.
Disappointing - lots of hindsight with no insight.......2004-01-22
Not very impressed.
This book is based upon many interviews and observations with over 2 dozen companies around the world. However its all observation based upon hindsight of 'what' happened, with no real revelations into 'why'.
The selections are not convincing.
There's plenty of reference to Asahi Breweries in Japan who literally bet the whole Company on one idea about creating a market for Dry Beer. It paid off, but such a venture was very dangerous. Other Companies are studied that also bet everything yet didn't pay off; but there's no real insight into why the outcomes were different.
The index is poor; many Companies mentioned in the text don't appear in the Index. Compaq appears indexed under both 'failed transformations' and 'successful transformations' - so I re-read the relevant pages. It's the same anecdote, simply saying that what they did was a success 1991-98, but then caused their failing post-98? So what should they have done? If following the same action is deemed a 'fail' over 10 years, is it appropriate to still call it a 'success' over 8 years?
It's a history lesson, but with no real tools & techniques to take away for the future.
The strong shall become weak, and the weak strong again.......2003-11-27
At some point in a great battle between good and evil, at least as portrayed in pop culture, we can expect the villain to gloatingly assert: "It is your very goodness that will make you weak and fail." Professor Donald Sull is no super-villain but makes a similar, though rather more developed, claim about the best businesses. Rather than blaming the failure of a previously excellent company on incompetence, corruption, laziness, or lack of imagination, Sull locates the problem of stumbling giants in active inertia: the tendency of management to respond to disruptive changes by accelerating activities that succeeded in the past. In Revival of the Fittest, Sull analyzes this barrier and helps managers tackle the demanding task of overcoming it.
To overcome active inertia, Sull recommends neither evolutionary nor revolutionary change typically prescribed for faltering champions. Instead he explains the power of transforming commitments. Commitments matters, he explains, in that they both enable effective management and can disable it when they no longer fit what is needed. Managers select, make, honor, and less often remake commitments or binding actions by investing capital, making personnel decisions, exiting a business, making public promises, making public promises, forging relationships with resource providers, writing contracts, or by manipulating information. Commitments are a powerful tool for creating the desired future but they also become cognitive, cultural, and structural shackles that prevent a company from changing - even when the need to change is clear to all.
Companies take shape at the beginning of the "life cycle of commitments" through defining commitments consisting of strategic frames, resources, processes, relationships, and values. The character of the organization hardens over time as managers make reinforcing commitments large and small. The best companies develop a "success formula" that becomes the envy of competitors and the source of best practices for writers and consultants. This story takes a tragic turn when, eventually and inevitably, a gap opens and widens between the nature of the company and the business environment. The only way out - if one exists at all - is through transforming commitments that require boldness, prudence, and tenacity.
Sull uses pairs of companies to show how some have spiraled down while others successfully made and kept their transforming commitments. IBM's justly famous transformation under Gerstner exemplifies the latter, though this is only one of a wide range of illuminating examples in the book. Sull casts light on the active inertia trap which can arise from the basis of any of the original defining commitments. He follows this with eight risk factors to check for and some diagnostic tests to administer. If transforming commitments fit your situation, you must then choose the right anchor. This may be a new strategic frame but may also be new resources, processes, relationships, or values. The right anchor needs to be worked on by the right person who gives the transforming commitments traction by making commitments credible, clear, and courageous.
Since commitments are powerful tools, Sull's cautious advice includes an unflinching look at seven common mistakes that can lead transformation efforts off-track. Neither does Sull allow managers to anticipate the benefits without also appreciating the personal costs. The book does not try to delve deeply into every relevant aspect of each stage, allow the book to convey vital points while remaining slim enough for busy executives to actually read.
Refreshing look at the rise, fall, rebound of companies.......2003-11-20
This is an excellent, pragmatic, and thoroughly engaging book on how successful companies can find themselves at risk for failure due to what Sull coins as "active inertia". This concept is illustrated with a great set of corporate examples which are different from the ones used in many other business texts -- and this is a key feature which sets the book apart from its competitors. Sull walks the reader through some very useable steps for how companies can transform themselves and avert obsolescence. A great book, greatly written.
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Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the cinematic remake. As cinema enters its second century, more remakes are appearing than ever before, and these writers consider the full range: Hollywood films that have been recycled by Hollywood, such as The Jazz Singer, Cape Fear, and Robin Hood; foreign films including Breathless; and Three Men and a Baby, which Hollywood has reworked for American audiences; and foreign films based on American works, among them Yugoslav director Emir Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies, which is a "makeover" of Coppola's Godfather films. As these essays demonstrate, films are remade by other films (Alfred Hitchcock went so far as to remake his own The Man Who Knew Too Much) and by other media as well.
The editors and contributors draw upon narrative, film, and cultural theories, and consider gender, genre, and psychological issues, presenting the "remake" as a special artistic form of repetition with a difference and as a commercial product aimed at profits in the marketplace. The remake flourishes at the crossroads of the old and the new, the known and the unknown. Play It Again, Sam takes the reader on an eye-opening tour of this hitherto unexplored territory.
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Nuggets Amidst the Jargon.......2002-04-18
The nineteen essays collected here (along with introduction and afterword) grapple with various aspects of cinematic "remakes", and while most have something to offer the general reader, many get bogged down in attempting to find a definition or critical space for remakes. In other words, to get to the good stuff, you're going to have to wade through a lot of critical jargon from psychoanalytic film theory and cultural studiesýwords such as "intertextuality," "oedipal" and "postmodernity" pop up a lot. That caveat aside, there are plenty of nuggets to reward the patient reader.
Albert Kolker's "Recalculating the Hitchcock Formula" is an intriguing analysis of Martin Scorcese's Cape Fear, in which it is proposed that Scorcese remade Cape Fear by simultaneously remaking Hitchcock's Stage Fright, I Confess, and Stranger on a Train. Dan Georgakas's essay on Robin Hood effectively shows how the 1938 and 1991 versions each embodied the cultural and political trends of their time. Michael Brashinsky's considers Bergman's Virgin Spring and Wes Craven's The Last House of the Left in an examination of how a to remake a European "art" film into a low-budget slasher picture. In "The Superhero With A Thousand Faces," Luca Somigli provides a cogent analyses of the relationship of superhero film franchises such as Batman and Superman to their comic-book sources. His elegant conclusion is that such projects are based on the accumulated myth of the characters and setting, rather than being remakes. My favorite essay is Elisabeth Weis's exploration on how the film M*A*S*H was adapted for television and managed to continually reinvent itself while maintaining audience loyalty. Other essays have their moments, but the ones above will be the most accessible and interesting to the general reader.
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This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of the phenomenon of cinematic remaking. Drawing upon recent theories of genre and intertextuality, Film Remakes describes remaking as both an elastic concept and a complex situation, one enabled and limited by the interrelated roles and practices of industry, critics, and audiences. This approach to remaking is developed across three broad sections: the first deals with issues of production, including commerce and authors; the second considers genre, plots, and structures; and the third investigates issues of reception, including audiences and institutions.
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In the Hollywood of the future there's no need for actors since any star can be digitally recreated and inserted into any movie. Yet young Alis wants to dance on the silver screen. Tom tries to dissuade her, but he fears she will pursue her dream--and likely fall victim to Hollywood's seamy underside, which is all to eager to swallow up naive actresses. Then Tom begins to find Alis in the old musicals he remakes, and he has to ask himself just where the line stands between reality and the movies.
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Winner of more Hugo and Nebula Awards than any other science fiction author, Connie Willis is one of the most powerfully imaginative writers of our time. In Remake, she explores the timeless themes of emotion and technology, reality and illusion, and the bittersweet place where they intersect to make art.
Remake
It's the Hollywood of the future, where moviemaking's been computerized and live-action films are a thing of the past. It's a Hollywood where Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe are starring together in A Star Is Born, and if you don't like the ending, you can change it with the stroke of a key.
A Hollywood of warmbodies and sim-sex, of drugs and special effects, where anything is possible. Except for what one starry-eyed young woman wants to do: dance in the movies. It's an impossible dream, but Alis is not willing to give up. With a little magic and a lot of luck, she just might get her happy ending after all.
From the Paperback edition.
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A disappointed Willis Fan.......2005-10-04
Being a big Connie Willis Fan it grieves me deeply to give anything she writes a bad review. It is obvious that she did a tremendous amount of movie research before writing this and she did enlighten me on a lot of trivia about some of my favorite movies. Yet, the book in itself, was boring and a big disappointment.
Watch Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Read This!.......2005-04-18
It's been ages since I've read this book, but I was reminded of it today while watching "Sky Captain." The "bad guy" in the film is the actor Laurence Oliver-despite having been dead how many years? It gave me chills, just like the first time I saw Fred Astaire dancing with a Red Devil vacumn cleaner. Well, they say science fiction predicts the future. The future is now.
Let's Dance.......2005-01-12
In Remake, Connie Willis displays the humor, deft-plotting, and imaginative detail that have made her one of the most award-winning writers in science fiction history. Set in the Hollywood of the future where movies are no longer made so much as assembled, where all the great actors and actresses of the twentieth century have been digitalized and can be programmed to act out any scene at the touch of a button, a cynical digital processor meets a woman who wants to do the impossible -- dance in the movies.
short but still tiresome.......2004-02-20
The small amount of action in this story is lengthened into description after description of the narrator doing drugs and drinking while altering classic movies. You really want to shout "OK, I get the idea, already! Would you please move on???"
Finally we get to the climax, and it's not much. There is no suspense, more of just an explanation of how the would-be dancer Alis has mysteriously appeared in some of the old movies. It's a required SF explanation (so that the story can be called SF) but really it's hard to be curious when you just want the thing to end, please -- by this point in the story you know it's not going to get any more interesting.
It seems that Willis put all her energy into coming up with the SF premise and watching old movies so she could insert little descriptions of scenes into the text. It needed more attention to the characters and a plot. This would have made a passable short story.
Romantic Comedy.......2003-02-23
It takes Willis a long time to write a novel, due to the incredible amount of research that she does for them. Of course, this is also one of the reasons why they are so good. In the early 1990s, her editor had a brilliant idea--why not write shorter novels? Connie, in a rare fit of insanity, agreed. The idea was crazy because she does the same amount of research for a novella as for a novel. If there was a silver lining in this cloud, it is likely the increased amount of shelf space that Willis now takes up with seven different titles instead of four (I'm not counting her new book, nor the collaborations with Cynthia Felice).
There may be another silver lining in that we got three novellas that might otherwise not have existed, and it is a format that Connie excels at, and a format that, rarely, is as financially rewarding. This is the second of the three that I have read (I also commented on Bellwether). It is not a screwball, per se, which is somewhat surprising given that it is about movies. It does, however, contain that signature Willis humor.
Tom is a poor student at the UNC film school, who has to moonlight as a film "editor" to pay his tuition. I have to put editor in quotes, because this is the future, where movies are not made but remade with digitized famous actors. Into this walks Alis, a "face" who confides to Tom that she wants to dance in the movies.
Like many of Connie's stories, this one plays with the concept of time-travel, although the one-way trip into film nostalgia here is an unusual twist. If this was made into a film, the likely category it would fall into is romantic comedy, although comedy and tear-jerker aspects are there. Think of it as Willis' Jerry Maguire.
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A leading scholar "takes back" African-American history from the textbook writers and Afrocentric mythmakers-and shows how the stories we tell about our past can help shape our future
With a fresh look at the enduring legacy of such familiar figures as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Manning Marable-one of the most important black scholars to emerge since the civil rights movement-brings the past alive for a new generation. Interweaving history with tales from his own teaching life-establishing the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where Malcolm X was murdered, as an historical institute, or mobilizing students to vote as they learn about the Freedom Summer of 1964-Marable connects today's social issues with the tribulations and triumphs of yesterday.
Marable's perspective on the significance of these great lives lays the groundwork for his inclusive vision of "living history"-one that challenges the antiquated notions of African-American history as something separate from American history. Here the story of the slave counts as much as that of the master. Living Black History will empower readers with an understanding of our collective past and the knowledge that each day we-average citizens-are "makers" of our own American history.
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Is this even Scholarship?.......2007-09-15
I respect what Professor Marable is trying to say in his book, however, it isn't articulated well enough. What stands out in my mind is that (especially with regard to the Malcolm X chapter) the 'scholarly pursuit' found within is more deductive and assuming than anything. Aside from that, to look at the sources in the bibliography, is like wading through a mire and it makes clarifying his research more difficult (there aren't even proper footnotes). This could have been better. But it's worth reading.
DISPLACED AFRICANS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.......2007-06-08
ANY BOOK BY DR. MANNING MIRABEL IS WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN SALT AND INTELLECTUAL PERSUIT.
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Addresses the important role of remakes in film culture, from early cinema to contemporary Hollywood.
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Noir, Now and Then: Film Noir Originals and Remakes (1944-1999)
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This examniation of the cinematic style of film noir originals and their neo-noir remakes compares thirty-five films, beginning with Billy Wilder's classic Double Indemnity and concluding with Jim McBride's Breathless. In-depth analysis of the films explain the qualities and characteristics of film noir, while providing critical readings of both the originals and the remakes. The most significant films since 1944 are reviewed and reveal the ever-changing values in American society. As this study reveals, the noir style significantly impacted American film and neo-noir remakes attest to its continued popularity in cinematic art. This work will appeal to film scholars and to fans of film noir. Filmogrpahies and video information follow each chapter. Appendices briefly explain the roots of many noir films discussed in the text along with their subsequent remakes.
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How about some value for money.......2005-02-27
I paid a c-note for Brion's "Le Film Noir" back when a dollar was worth more than a Euro, but for this book? I saw the scintillating reviews (one posted in duplicate) and read it at the AMPAS library, which are the only shelves on which I would ever expect to find a publication from Greenwood (or McFarland or Scarecrow). This "tome" (who wrote that review?) is a lot less pretentious than Jon Tuska's "Dark Cinema," Greenwood's foundation noir text; but really, after Foster Hirsch and Silver & Ursini have both weighed in at length on neo-noir, was this book necessary? It is not exceptional if marginally enlightening, so for hard core noir readers only. If you really have a $100 to spare and want to fill out your a noir library, buy Detours & Lost Highways, The Noir Style, a couple of Noir Readers or some other essential book you may be missing and still have enough left over for the Warner Bros Noir Collection.
Exceptional.......2002-02-05
NOIR: NOW AND THEN is an exceptional book of film ommentary. Even if you are only mildly interested in fil noir, you will find it fascinating, enlightenig and entertaining, as the author brilliantly compares the differences between original film noir and its modern counterpart. Schwartz not only knows the dark heart of noir but also its calculating brain as well as its occasional funny bone. NOIR: NOW AND THEN would be a most valuable addition to any collection of film studies.
Excellent noir survey.......2002-01-25
This book is an excellent introduction to the differences between classic film noir (1940-1960) and neo noir (post 1960). Schwartz does this by comparing classic film noirs which were later remade as neo-noirs. If you enjoy this film genre, you will find this tome a real treat. Recommended by all means.
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David Olson offers a theoretical account of the relationship between the minds of learners and the institutional structure of the school. Why do efforts at reforming schools routinely fail? It is because schools are by and large successful in achieving their two primary responsibilities. They meet the needs of the bureaucratic society which funds them as well as the goals and beliefs of the students who attend them. In meeting the needs, however, minds and societies are altered in conspicuous and important ways that are revealed in this book.
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The remake is a prominent feature of contemporary Hollywood production. Of remakes, a very high proportion originate from France.This book considers the implications of the remake in terms of its effect on the construction of a national cultural identity by examining in particular key remakes of French films in Hollywood over the past twenty years and highlighting the increased importance of culture in political discourse of the 1980s as a fundamental reason for the negative reception of remakes in France.
The 1980s saw a new wave of films such as La Cage aux Folles (1978)/The Birdcage (1996), Trois hommes et un couffin (1985)/Three Men and a Baby (1987) and Le Retour de Martin Guerre (1982)/Sommersby (1993) reconstructed and transformed through the remake process. The author considers whether the remake can be considered as a positive form of cross-cultural exchange or if in fact it threatens the very identity of the originals.
Incorporating a unique historical overview of the remake with analysis of the transformation process, Encore Hollywood: Remaking French Cinema provides a lucid analysis of a controversial topic.
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