The Beardless Wonders by Kathleen Kennedy

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Kathleen Kennedy called Matt and said that she saw this article on us and they had just found Steven's eight millimeter films. If it's not clear, these were old films that Steven had made when he was a teenager. So we repaired these movies, every single frame remained intact. We returned them and they gave us $300. And I didn't get to meet Steven for another six years or so. But I still to this day don't understand why Kathy is so brilliant and that move is so insane"

You can’t predict your next a-ha moment. but you can create favorable circumstances for serendipity to happen – for you, and for your team. No one knows this better than J.J. Abrams, director, producer, screenwriter, and co-founder and co-CEO of Bad Robot Productions, which has been behind some of the most successful TV series and films of the last 20 years, from Lost to Star Trek to the Star Wars sequel trilogy. J.J. explains how creativity and collaboration are things you cultivate, not conjure; and that making room for magic isn’t a luxury, it’s an essential part of entrepreneurship. Building the conditions for discovery emboldens and energizes a team, he shows, helping to accelerate the arrival of the next surprise-and-delight solution.

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