Sunday, October 2, 2016
Experts Views on the Value of Business
Chuck Blakeman started seven businesses on four continents
but he feels the traditional business plan is a waist of time. Blakeman spoke about rehumanizing business by
giving everyone their brain back; he has a no-nonsense approach to life and
business. He is the type to help you
unlearned everything learned about business then rebuilds you up with great
information. He not only wants to
transform your business but also your life. Even though Blakeman has an unconventional way
of thing I agree with him on a certain level. I do know some people will spend
months almost years trying to perfect their business plan in retrospect if that
time was applied directly to the business the business would be up and running
by now. However on the other hand, I do
think an entrepreneur needs some sort of guide to follow. How successful can a
person be if they just wing it all?
Carl Schramm is currently a professor at Syracuse University;
he also serves as a visiting scientist at MIT and a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations. (Thinkbrg.org, 2016).
Even though Carl Schramm is an educator is views on entrepreneur are not
textbook. He believes sticking to a
traditional business plan is a waist of time because business plans quickly
expires. Everything does not need to be exact
according to him, being exact is being redundant and being redundant is being
normal. Some characteristics of an
entrepreneur according to Carl Schramm are: they think in terms of disruption,
and are often thought to be disruptive by the change-averse: They see things
differently, considering untraditional forces that others did not see.
It’s a little funny to me how I pick to men who think unconventional,
like myself. Yes, I believe everyone
needs a foundation and guidance however textbooks often go out of date with
information so why solely rely on textbooks for information and a blue print?
Reference:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/carl_schramm_leadership.html
Sunday, January 10, 2016
TV Research
IS REALITY TV BAD???
The first said to be reality
TV show was An American Family, it aired in 1973 on PBS. The camera’s followed
the Loud family a family of 5 where the parents went through a divorce while
Lance the oldest brother openly admitted he was gay on TV. According to daily mail.com newspaper the loud family was the
Kardashians of the 70s...attractive, wealthy, dysfunctional. Just as current
reality stars have stated opening up your home to America is not always good.
In 2001 Lance Loud died from HIV complications he received a lot of backlash
from the media by being gay on TV in the 1970’s. Reality TV also keeps the stereotypes alive
by how Black women are portrayed in entertainment. Because black female roles
are still limited on TV society would rather see women that look like them but
not necessarily act like them. “It is
not just the genre of reality TV that produces the fear of negative black
imagery. Black female representation on television and in film is so scarce
that any woman cast in these roles is believed to have the power to stunt the
progress black women have made in society.”(Warner, 2015) So I ask the question
should we be grateful we have this platform of reality TV even though it may
hinder some?
THE YEAR OF BLACK WOMEN ON
TV
Its no secret that today’s
Top TV shows are played by black actresses, Scandal, How To Get Away with
Murder and Empire. Before Kerry Washington made her scandal debut the last show
that featured an African American woman in a network drama was in 1974 the Get
Christie Love show. Shonda Rhimes the writer of Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How
To Get Away with Murder thinks it’s about time Black actresses are getting
noticed. When Shonda accepted her Director’s Guild award for diversity she said,
“She’s ticked,
she said, “because there still needs to be an award. Like, there’s such a lack
of people hiring women and minorities that when someone does it on a regular
basis, they are given an award.” (Wiltz, 2014) Is this just a money thing?
There will be more Black women on TV because it makes sense, it’s a smart economic
move so why not? African-American buying power is projected
to reach $1.1 trillion next year, it makes smart business sense to populate
television shows with all different types of people. But will these actresses
get full recognition? Scandal is one of ABC’s hit moneymakers but Kerry Washington
hasn’t been the winner of any award show because she plays a role where she
carries on an affair with the “white” President of United States. Even though I’m grateful society still has a
lot of work to do accepting minorities and putting them on TV.
THE
NEXT GENERATION
Even
though I Love classic TV I will not make it as a successful Television Producer
if I try to create the same shows. TV today is very competitive and I will have
to bring something new and fresh to the table. Old school won’t work I have to
tell stories that my generations and future generations can relate to Not the
Cosby’s nor The Real Housewives of any place. Shonda Rhimes said it the best TV
has to look like what we look like. “It’s who is telling the stories,” she says,
“because the people telling the stories are the people deciding who you see
onscreen, they’re the people who are deciding who are in the writers rooms,
they’re the people deciding on the crew.” (Berman, 2015)
Independent
TV has also made a huge impact on how people view TV not only can I turn on the
TV but I can also use my computer to follow several web based programs, this is
the new era and there are multiple ways to reach your audience today. “ITVFest has created a
trusted doorway for indie artists to take the next steps in their career, based
solely on the merit of their work and their professionalism,” (Meek, 2105)
WILL
STREAMING TV KILL LIVE TV NETWORKS?
Television
now works with it’s subscribers convenience my favorite shows I have to watch
it Live the day it comes on the time it comes on but that’s not convenient for
all. My daughter likes to stream her TV shows or record them so she can binge
watch and I have a subscription to Netflix and Hulu…eventually will this effect
TV networks? “Traditional television assumes your time is scarce and it has you
for a few precious hours before bed. The streaming services assume they own
your free time, whenever it comes – travel, holidays, weekends – to fill with
five- and 10-hour entertainments.” (Poniewozik, 2016)
Success
of streaming TV shows have open up doors for writers that haven’t been noticed
for networks or regular TV. Streaming
companies can afford to take risk unlike major networks and more creative
people can shine this way. The Orange is the New Black is a Netflix original
and has won several awards already the only downfall I see with this is what if
a person can’t afford to pay for streaming TV.
I must admit I
love no commercials and the big networks have taken notice and decided to cut
there commercial time in order to compete with streaming TV services “it seems as thoughthe big networks have decided that the best way to
compete with a commercial-free service is to lessen the amount of the commercials shown and charge more for them.” (Gonezales, 2015)
Well I participate in both the streaming world and regular TV I need both to survive!
References
Warner, K. J. (2015). They Gon'
Think You Loud Regardless: Ratchetness, Reality Television, and Black
Womanhood. Camera Obscura, 30(88), 129-153. doi:10.1215/02705346-2885475
Gomez, P. (2015). SCANDAL CREATOR
SHONDA RHIMES My Year of Yes. People, 84(20), 73-76.
Lansky, S., Trianni, F., & Berman, E.
(2015). Shonda Rhimes on Raising the Next Generation of TV Producers. Time.Com,
N.PAG.
GONZALES,
D. (2015). Thanks to Netflix, TV Will Have Fewer Commercials. PC Magazine,
15-17.
http://gu.com/p/4fkbm/sbl
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Chiraq vs ChiTown
Chi-Raq, a Spike Lee production was released in
movie theaters worldwide Friday December 4, 2015. We all love or love to hate
Spike Lee because of his controversial productions but this film Chi-Raq hit a
nerve not only to myself but thousands of Chicagoans. Rappers, Actors and
politicians all had a rebuttal to this film.
Chi-Raq is advertised as a true story but many feel
this movie is a misrepresentation of Chicago's Englewood community but as usual
Lee stands by his films one hundred percent including the fact there are
Chicago natives playing roles in the movie. The title alone allude that Chicago is a war zone the Mayor of
Chicago among others was hoping the title would change.
None is negating there have been over 100 murders this year but if
you want to shed light on a community in crisis why not help these communities
instead of shining light on the flaws. Open up a school for the performance
arts, bring business that can lead to employment, community centers not making
a movie about Englewood and having your audience think the entire city of
Chicago is this way. Several movies, books, plays, articles famous people feeling sorry for Chicago but no one cares enough for real to help. Chicago is not the only city who suffers from senseless murders and according to the movie I'm scared to leave out of my house and hear gunshots daily. I'm not impressed. It's my fear that the youth now in Englewood maybe a
product of this movie. They may think street gangs and murder is the norm, they
won't try to escape they will try to imitate the roles in this movie. This
movie raise some valuable points but not everyone or everything that comes from
Chicago is bad, the title alone will make someone mind up if they will come
here to visit. So Spike Lee wants Chicagoans to wake up but I challenge him to come help us wake up.
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