Blair Miller

When team leaders meet a challenge, they often spend more time dealing with their people than dealing with the challenge. In Good Team, Bad Team, a ground-breaking primer for leaders, Sarah Thurber and Blair Miller share their decades of experience building, facilitating, and leading thriving teams alongside pioneering research from the fields of cognitive diversity and creative problem-solving. Effective team leadership isn’t mind-reading - it’s good science. Built on research from their popular FourSight System - used by Disney, Nike, and NASA - Good Team, Bad Team examines over 6 million data points on problem-solving styles that impact collaboration, innovation, and leadership. By integrating these scientific insights with creative strategies, Good Team, Bad Team presents a transformative model that empowers leaders to harness the diverse energies of their teams and generate powerful results. With practical exercises, relatable stories, and contrasting examples, Thurber and Miller clarify the complexities of how good and bad teams approach challenges and why they succeed or struggle to solve them. Good Team, Bad Team is the must-read leadership toolkit to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of collaboration and achieve extraordinary results - together.

Using perhaps the most famous science fiction film ever made, what does it mean that we are determined by space? That the human individual was created by controlling its spatial environment(s)? Complicating matters further, that same control that defines us limits our understanding and the spaces themselves, to the extent that the individual itself is under command. space/self/world is a critical examination of a certain philosophical approach to space via Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. As bookends to a chronology of the human self-specifically its spatial relationship(s)-that encompasses Kubrick's whole body of work, 2001 provides an account of human existence from "beginning" to "end." That existence is deeply informed by spatial negotiations involving all people and things. Theodor Adorno's essay "Odysseus of Myth and Enlightenment" explains how the modern self (and reason) came to be, in terms of power relationships and self-domination. Seen together, the film and theories articulated by the Frankfurt School icon give an account of spatial identities that, when brought up against theories of acoustic space put forth by communications theorists Marshall McLuhan and J. Macgregor Wise, demonstrate human identity as largely the outcome of spatial negotiations that have resulted in instrumentalization of spaces, and, in turn, ourselves. This book travels 2001's narrative arc, critically analyzing it by providing a nuanced-at times abstract and metaphorical-account of space, instrumentalization, and power relationships that all intersect as building blocks of the contemporary self. Originally written 15 years ago, its concepts and concerns are as apt and urgent as ever.Blair Miller is a brilliant emerging scholar who has critically engaged Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001 and provided an illuminating and challenging reading. Focusing on the categories of space, self, world, and identity in Kubrick's space odyssey, Miller provides a critical and philosophical reading that will challenge us to see Kubrick's complex film as a text that expands our philosophical vistas and visions of the universe. I strongly recommend this original and ground-breaking work. Douglas Kellner, Philosophy of Education Chair, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA Blair Miller turns a timely analysis of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey into an exploration of the ways human beings respond to the spaces they confront and inhabit, which itself turns on the question of whether we can respond in more reciprocal, less destructive ways to the spaces in and through which we make sense of our selves.Nikolas Kompridis, Author of Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future

A story of love, anger, lust, romance, humor, grief, hope, sorrow, regret, and ultimately redemption. Angels neutral in the first war in heaven are given tasks by the angel Emekmiyahu to redeem themselves in the eyes of GOD.

Blair Miller tells the story of the motion picture industry as it developed in Jacksonville after the turn of the twentieth century. Almost Hollywood reveals the meteoric rise of Jacksonville in early silent films. Home to over thirty studios employing actors, directors, and stagehands, Jacksonville became touted as the “winter film capital of the world” by 1915. A myriad of factors contributed to Jacksonville’s rise and then fall by the mid 1920s. What were the reasons why Jacksonville missed out as the next mecca for filmmaking? Blair Miller tells the story through primary sources from that remarkable period.

Blair Miller tells the story of the motion picture industry as it developed in Jacksonville after the turn of the twentieth century. Almost Hollywood reveals the meteoric rise of Jacksonville in early silent films. Home to over thirty studios employing actors, directors, and stagehands, Jacksonville became touted as the “winter film capital of the world” by 1915. A myriad of factors contributed to Jacksonville’s rise and then fall by the mid 1920s. What were the reasons why Jacksonville missed out as the next mecca for filmmaking? Blair Miller tells the story through primary sources from that remarkable period.

Many movie genres developed during the silent era, but none was as lasting as comedies. Actors and actresses stood in front of crude, hand-cranked cameras and invented a style that made people laugh and forget their troubles. This is an encyclopedic work to persons, institutions and terms associated with silent film comedy. For people, there is a capsule biography and a summary of their contribution. For studios and companies, there is a brief history and for terms, a full definition is given.