Management Is Not A Science, It Is

To This Day, I Fondly Recall The Challenges Of Building A Fire, Pitching A Tent, Climbing A New England Mountain, Canoeing On A Lake. Camp Songs Still Resonate Inside Me. Competition Exists At Keewaydin, Of Course, But Nobody Fails Summer Camp, A Nice Respite From Winters Of Fortune And Misfortune At School.

There's A Fine Line Between What Would Characterize You As A Troglodyte And What Would Characterize You As A Brilliant, Avant-garde, Forward-thinking Genius. There's Some Middle Ground.

Content Has Always Driven The Business. Now It's No Longer The Queen To A King Of Distribution; It Is The King, King, King, Because The Consumer Has Complete Choice.

Years Later, I Found Myself Running A Network Television Division And Then A Movie Studio And Now An Entire Entertainment Company. But, Much Of The Success I've Achieved Can Be Traced To The Direct And Metaphorical Lessons I Learned In Building Those Campfires. I Can Hardly Think Of An Aspect Of My Life That Wasn't Positively Affected By My Camping Experience.

If You Make Something Good, Eventually The Audience Will Be There, Eventually There Will Be Something On The Internet That Is A Cultural Phenomenon That's Not Available Anywhere Else, That's Not Available On Television Broadcasts, That's Not On Cable, It's Only On Some Web Site. And The World Will Find It. And When That Happens, It Will Be What The 'kiss' Was To The Theatrical Movie Business, 5,000 Years Ago Or Whenever It Was.