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...wide variety of other programs have developed that purport to impart management wisdom: martial arts, golf (don't ask), rhythmic drumming (ditto), paintball and treasure hunts among them. Some trainers use improvisational comedy to supposedly unleash the inner Jay Leno in trainees, while other consultants bring along wild animals to scare off any doubts about promoting Smithers to GM in the Northeast office...
...group set a common goal of getting in touch with their inner manager, a serious exercise in which strawberry roans, pintos and buckskins would be broken down into mere corporate tools. "I saw one of the founders of the Home Ranch work with a wild mustang a few years ago," recalled Mickey Connolly, co-founder and CEO of Conversant, whose clients include much of the FORTUNE 500. "The techniques he used to calm fear and replace it with trust and partnership struck me as crucially important to managers and executives. Horses and cattle are ideal to work with because they...
Clueless, desperate-to-fit-in, optimistic foreigners are a classic comedy trope--the Clouseaus, Cousin Balkis, Morks, Two Wild and Crazy Guys--because they spotlight the ridiculousness that we accept. When he's at a rodeo, driving the crowd into a frenzy with anti-Iraqi, pro-war cheers, Borat demonstrates how much aggression is intertwined with patriotism. And his attempts to be American pinpoint exactly how the world sees us: garish, violent, nouveau riche, a land of Donald Trumps and 50 Cents...
...located another kindred spirit in Timothy Treadwell (Grizzly Man), who lived with wild bears for 12 summers and was mauled to death by them in the 13th. But whether Herzog is filming auctioneers, televangelists or Saharan herdsmen, he always finds the drama. Sometimes he invents it, staging scenes to underline some point. He finds the standard documentary form boring and banal--"the truth of accountants." What he deeply believes in is "poetic, ecstatic truth ... that can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization...
Critics have painted groups like SLAM as small bands of wild-eyed idealists getting together in rooms to dream up their next cause or campaign. Yet activists do not wake up one morning and decide that workers need a raise or a union, or that Coca-Cola and McDonald’s are evil. Nor do we demonstrate, march, take over stages, go on hunger strikes, or occupy university buildings because we feel like...