10/16/2017

Creating Your Own Wisdom Journal

Scribe your thoughts to keep your leadership opportunities on track

Putting thoughts down in a journal is a useful leadership exercise. When doing so, it is important to include more than what is happening now but also what could go wrong.

This kind of journaling is revealed with the publication of "The Godfather Notebook" that director Francis Ford Coppola kept while making this iconic film. As revealed in an interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s "Fresh Air," Coppola used the notebook to record his thoughts on the meaning, intention and pitfalls of every scene.

Film directors are leaders on the set. Good ones plan every scene in advance so that they can capture the spirit of the script on screen creatively as well as efficiently.

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