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...quartet - A Tale of Springtime, A Tale of Winter, A Summer Tale, An Autumn Tale - in the '90s and another three features in the 2000s. (He was a late starter who never stopped.) At times Rohmer dipped into the past, for The Marquise of O, Perceval and his final work, Romance of Astree and Celadon, but he's best remembered for his lighter films and their scrupulous devotion to the wiles and smiles of women. He ranked with George Cukor, Ingmar Bergman and Yasujiro Ozu as a director, appreciator and avid anatomizer of the opposite sex. And his actresses were...
...light and pleasant as a Rohmer work often was - attractive people falling in love, at least with the idea of love - it was a taste not everyone cared to acquire. Quentin Tarantino, the great enthu-woozy-ast of world cinema, offered this very qualified recommendation of Rohmer's films: "You have to see one of them, and if you kind of like that one, then you should see his other ones. But you need to see one to see if you like it." He makes Rohmer's movies sound less like caviar, more like artichokes. Gene Hackman, in his role...
Motivating people by dangling money in front of them doesn't always work. Nor do a host of other traditional business incentives. Instead, argues Daniel Pink, an author who worked as a speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, people are often fueled by intrinsic motivations - like the simple desire to do good work. To prove his point, Pink penned Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which hit stores Dec. 29. Pink talked with TIME about what fuels good work, the perils of performance reviews and what businesses can do to boost performance in a tough economic climate...
...think intrinsic motivators are stronger than external rewards? I think they're more important for creative, conceptual tasks. If-then motivators - if you do this, then you get that - are really good for routine algorithmic tasks. The problem is fewer of us are doing that kind of work. Now, that doesn't mean that we stop paying people. Intrinsic motivators are clearly the primary root to high performance. In the world of behavioral science that's not even controversial; the idea just hasn't migrated to business. (See the best business deals...
...autonomous workers as productive? I think that most people will perform better under conditions of autonomy than they do under conditions of heavy control. What I would recommend for companies today is to [set aside] 10% time - essentially, one afternoon a week where employees can work on anything they want, and you do it for six months. Everybody I know, including myself, has squandered one afternoon a week...