{"id":2352,"date":"2003-09-08T02:04:51","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T10:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2009-11-08T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T10:06:09","slug":"lessons-from-sundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/lessons-from-sundance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Sundance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Redford\u2019s Sundance enterprise includes a cable channel, a DVD\/video line, a retail catalog, a resort, and its focal point\u2014a nonprofit institute that is part artists\u2019 colony, part R&amp;D lab and producer of the annual Sundance Film Festival. Redford\u2019s dedication to innovation in filmmaking has not only spawned and nurtured an expanding independent film industry, it\u2019s also proven amazingly successful in a field where so many projects and products fail. Thirty-five percent of projects developed in the Sundance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecareclinic.org\/buy-cialis-ed-pills\/\">https:\/\/www.thecareclinic.org\/buy-cialis-ed-pills\/<\/a> Filmmakers Lab and 85% of its Theater Lab projects make it to production, and the brand has come to be synonymous with independent filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>Central to Redford\u2019s philosophy is that growth is not an accounting practice but a creative process\u2014and not just in the film industry, but in any business. \u201cDo you think the earth was created by an accountant?\u201d asks Redford. \u201cNo! The earth was created by the combustion of a creative explosion. Fire and chaos are what started everything. Then order came on top of that.\u201d And while many businesses pay lip service to the importance of innovation, Redford says for the most part it\u2019s \u201ccoming out of paper and air. The signs are everywhere. The collapsing of certain corporate structures, the mergers, the consolidation that was supposed to beef up profit are clearly, by and large, not working.\u201d To incorporate innovation into the daily operation of an enterprise, Redford says you must expose people to a variety of conflicting perspectives and don\u2019t hesitate to hire for raw ideas. Employ short-term mentors and force innovators to make the most of their own resources. Allow for experimentation, mistakes and dead-ends. Don\u2019t respond slavishly to market research. Periodically switch environments. And if you\u2019re the boss, give generously to the innovators in your company of your time and attention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/20030901\/sundance.html\">Story online at inc.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Redford\u2019s Sundance enterprise includes a cable channel, a DVD\/video line, a retail catalog, a resort, and its focal point\u2014a nonprofit institute that is part artists\u2019 colony, part R&amp;D lab and producer of the annual Sundance Film Festival. Redford\u2019s dedication to innovation in filmmaking has not only spawned and nurtured an expanding independent film industry,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[273,507,639],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-creativity","tag-philosophy","tag-robert-redford"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}