TIMING COUNTS when it comes to a story or a trial. The San Francisco Giants are playing in the World Series and millions of fans in the Bay Area are going nuts over baseball and the team, wearing orange and black and stopping everything to see them play. This is bad news for the BALCO […]
STORYTELLING FOR ME has always been about figuring a way in. As a journalist and author, I think mainly in three ways. Why do I care, how do I gain access to the characters or key facts, and how do I write something that strikes a cord. I recently wrote a piece called Lance Armstrong’s […]
TRIALS ARE NATURAL STORIES. There are heroes and villains and dramatic resolution. You are either found innocent or guilty. But what about a grand jury? They grant prosecutors and investigators extraordinary powers to subpoena and to potentially intimidate witnesses. So far in the Lance Armstrong case, former teammates, a chiropractor, a sports physiologist, and Tour […]
5.0 out of 5 stars sports writing at its best, December 15, 2010
By Harvey L. Myman (California) –
This review is from: Crashing Augusta: Real life tales of sports, men, and murder (Paperback)
“If you wondered whether smart, literate sports writing still exists, look no further than this powerful book from Jonathan Littman. And while his prose alone is worth the price of admission, the true strength in the book is found in Littman’s reporting. He takes the reader inside of the greatest institutions and events in sports, from the Super Bowl to the Masters, revealing often dark corners that will never be explored by the ESPN hype machine or the beat reporters who are beholden to the teams and the leagues. He also explores the worlds of steroids and the amazing subculture of the world’s fastest runners. This is, quite simply, a remarkable book that should be required reading in graduate journalism classes.”
— Harvey Myman, president of Rocket Science Productions and former Assistant Managing Editor at the Orange County Register.
Posted by Jon Littman on September 20, 2010 in Innovation, Performance, Storytelling, Uncategorized
“WE’VE ALL SEEN HOW A FEW MASTERFUL CEOs seem to single-handedly orchestrate company-wide innovation,
among them Steve Jobs, Richard Branson and Tony Hsieh…
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http://blog.imaginatik.com/2010/09/17/innovation-interview-littman/
By: Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman
In an exclusive book excerpt from the general manager of Ideo, we meet the personality types it takes to keep creativity thriving–and the devil’s advocate at bay.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/99/faces-of-innovation.html