I consider myself a pretty good people manager but it took me a long time to become one. I’ve always been good at working with photographers but it took quite a bit of work to become good at managing the people under me and I only really figured it out in the last year or so.
The greatest piece of advice I ever read (out of 20 or so business books) goes something like this: Taking someone else’s idea and increasing the quality by 5% occurs at the price of a 50% decrease in their commitment to execution (here’s a recent explaination on the Harvard Business blog).
Check it out here.
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Having worked as a TV news reporter I found Charlie’s piece very amusing – some of us have long believed reporting like this is a rubbish way to do things! But even if a journalist wants to tell stories in a more authentic and engaging way, the constraints of the so-called “house style” in many news organisations make it difficult to achieve. What’s needed is a massive culture shift and a complete re-think of what we understand quality broadcast news reporting is. And guess what?....
Winograd photographed, to paraphrase him, to see what the photograph would look like. Simple. This art critic is confused because of his western art critic approach. An eastern philosopher would have no trouble accepting Winograd’s koan like statement and the unity of his body of work under that concept..
Def some amazing work by some of these guys. The wedding work not so much but some of the more artistic work is very inspirational..
Spot on..
The elfpa is for bringing together the photographers from europe and it’s main course of non-profit work. Also, the elfpa is working wyth young people and showing them the beauty of photography. The elfpa was est. in 2006 and it has about 6000 members, from europe trying to make the LF more interesting for europe photographers..