March42010
Management lessons, care of Anna Wintour »
Kottke posted this a while back, but I thought it was great. R.J. Cutler, director of The September Issue, sums up what he learned Anna Wintour (Vogue editor, and the subject of the film) during the filming process.
I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there’s an hour’s worth of business or not. Not so at Vogue, where meetings are long if they go more than seven minutes and everyone knows to show up on time, prepared and ready to dive in. In Anna’s world, meetings often start a few minutes before they’re scheduled. If you arrive five minutes late, chances are you’ll have missed it entirely. Imagine the hours of time that are saved every day by not wasting so much of it in meetings.
The rest of the article is really interesting- mostly to read about how Wintour operates.
