Successful Directors Research Articles

Learning to direct one's care: barriers and facilitators reported by people with tetraplegia.

Qualitative analysis of focus group data. Identifying barriers to and facilitators of learning to direct one's own care as a person with tetraplegia due to spinal cord injury (SCI). Community, in New Jersey and Georgia, USA. Three focus groups of veterans and civilians with SCI, involving 26 people with chronic (≥1 year) tetraplegia due to SCI who provided direction to caregivers on a daily basis. Content analysis was used to identify barriers and facilitators. Challenges to learning to direct one's care included: (1) lack of acceptance of lasting effects of SCI; (2) not yet understanding one's body post-SCI; (3) embarrassment; (4) being overwhelmed with information; (5) differences between the inpatient rehabilitation setting and the "real world"; (6) lack of capable and willing assistants; and (7) hesitance to criticize caregivers. Factors that helped participants become successful directors of care included: (1) experience living with SCI; (2) being observant; (3) communicating effectively; (4) developing confidence to advocate for one's own needs; (5) learning when to "let go" and when to speak up; and (6) learning from peers. Direction of care is a complex skill that is developed over time, and requires awareness of one's needs and preferences, self-confidence, and strong communication skills. Rehabilitation clinicians' efforts to prepare people with SCI to direct their own care effectively should cultivate awareness of one's body, identify strategies for communicating successfully with caregivers, and provide opportunities for practice of care direction skills and discussion with experienced peers.

Alice Rohrwacher’s Cinema of Poetry

Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera (2023), the director’s fourth feature, opens with a young woman’s face, her glow, her blondeness. Rohrwacher is at once one of the most singular and most successful directors making films in Italy today. I look here at the distinct, full-throated critique of patriarchy and of machismo, in Italy and beyond, present in all her films but most forcefully in La Chimera. A vision of social and gender relations that transcend patriarchy, a refusal of indenture and violence, a focus on care for the earth and all living beings, orient her work and direct it toward the future. I see this as part of a broader project of antipatriarchal world making, one that depends not on the gender of the director or cinematographer, but on the vision the films propose: a vision realized in Rohrwacher’s cinema of poetry.

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A qualitative assessment of farmer director skills in agricultural cooperatives

Abstract Agricultural cooperatives in the United States are larger and more complex than ever before. Due to this growth, farmer directors need to up-skill to maximize farmer member benefits. Director education is generally considered a successful strategy for improving financial and strategic performance, yet little research has examined the skills U.S. agricultural cooperative directors need. This research identified skills – and, notably, behaviors – necessary for agricultural cooperative directors to ensure financial and operational success. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with cooperative leaders. Results were consistent across these three groups and suggest that successful directors must possess the following skills and behaviors: financial/ business, governance, board leadership, industry knowledge and strategic planning. Results suggest that educating farmer directors on these skills and behaviors may benefit all farmer members of an agricultural cooperative.

School directorship: effective leadership and management practices and challenges in primary schools in Cambodia

ABSTRACT In Cambodia, although school leadership and management are not systematically established, some school directors have effectively led and managed schools with positive results. Understanding the best practices of these successful directors would contribute significantly to improving both the theoretical and practical aspects in this field. Hence, this research aims to identify the leadership and management practices of good school directors. Three directors were selected from the six primary school directors who received ‘good school director’ rewards within the academic years 2013–14 to 2017–18 in order to document and propose a practical model of effective leadership and management practices in primary schools. A qualitative multiple case study method was employed for this study to explore key stakeholders’ in-depth insights and experiences in leading and managing schools. A triangulated data collection method of interviews and a focus group discussion, documents and observations were used to collect case evidence from the three selected primary schools. The results revealed that effective school directors are able to effectively translate policies and best practices to develop their schools and child-centric. Specifically, the personal values and drive of school directors are the central factors for school directors to effectively exercise their leadership and management in schools.

“Counter cinema” in the mainstream

ABSTRACT Hollywood’s women directors have received very little academic attention. The focus of much feminist scholarship is on those women filmmakers who have produced politicised films, and Hollywood histories have focused on the work of male filmmakers. This article argues for attention to be paid to Hollywood’s most financially successful directors as they have the potential to disrupt the patriarchal structures that govern the Hollywood film industry. Using writer-directors Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, and Nancy Meyers as case studies, this paper considers the industrial context within which these filmmakers have worked, and their films, in order to demonstrate the way in which women working within mainstream cinema have offered a form of counter cinema. The paper argues that Heckerling, Ephron, and Meyers have capitalized on industry discourses that position them away from blockbuster cinema and that they offer a knowingness in their representation of romance and desire in order to create women’s narratives that function as a counterpoint to Hollywood’s dominant values.

Women in the shadows in the movies of yavuz turgu

One of the most basic aspects of storytelling is «conflict”. This aspect is considered, while telling a story in a movie. The conflict between men and women is often used. However, even though there are many movies where the protagonist is a woman, usually the main part of the story and the conflict is a man. The movies of Yavuz Turgul, one of the most successful directors in Turkish cinema, both with their stories and the detailed characters in those stories, have earned are preferred by Turkish audience. Turgul generally portrayed subjects, such as a longing for the past, friendship, change in the society though his characters, who we can never forget and while doing this he has used a male main character in every movie, leaving the female characters more in the background. Since these are what come to mind when the movies of Yavuz Turgul are mentioned, the studies that have been made have been about this too. However, in addition to this, the existence of female characters, who try to make themselves heard thought their silence, play a big part in the broader story and must be also studied. This study will focus on some of the main topics of Turgul such as male friendship and manhood, and specifically on the cause of the silent women and through historical and feminist methods, using the movies Muhsin Bey, Eşkiya, Gönül Yarası, attepmt to find out where women belong in the stories of Yavuz Turgul.

The joint entrance exam, overconfident directors and firm performance

India has held an annually administered national examination for admission into its most prestigious undergraduate engineering colleges for over 50 years (known as the Joint Entrance Exam or JEE). The odds of success in this exam are minuscule. We show that those corporate directors who, as teenagers, successfully passed the JEE, hold more directorships relative to those directors who did not enjoy similar success in their teenage years. We show a significantly positive relationship exists between firm performance and the fraction of such successful directors on a given corporate board. We also find that, when appointing a new director, those corporate boards comprised of a higher proportion of JEE-directors are more likely to appoint a JEE-successful individual. Furthermore, complex firms have larger boards and a larger fraction of JEE-directors. A significantly higher proportion of complex firms, when appointing new directors, appoint JEE-directors, relative to the other firms. We believe that the JEE-directors are an overconfident group (fueled by spectacular success early in life) and it is intrinsic overconfidence that propels them to make decisions on corporate boards that translates into superior firm performance.

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: What are Good Directors Made of?

We empirically analyze how outside directors and firms choose each other in a sample of 40,585 unique directors associated with 5,246 unique U.S. listed firm. We first provide stylized facts on outside directors and the successful ones. We find that gender, qualifications (MBA), work experience (especially S&P500 firm experience and CEO experience), social network size, experience on board committees, all impact the likelihood of becoming a successful director. Directors of large, complex, volatile and qualitatively reputable firms and of firms with higher levels of institutional ownership are also more likely to become successful directors. Being a member of a more independent board or obtaining the first directorship during a recession act against obtaining a second directorship. Second, we find that firms search for candidates for directorship from older, larger, more complex, more transparent, better governed, and well-performing companies. Third, we document and quantify the impact of five most important factors that determine the two-sided firm-director matching process, namely firm size, firm risk (return and operating performance volatility), stock performance, firm age, and institutional holdings. Overall, our evidence is informative for the workings of the labor market for outside directors.

Electrochemical microelectrodes for improved spatial and temporal characterization of aqueous environments around calcium phosphate cements

Calcium phosphate compounds can potentially influence cellular fate through ionic substitutions. However, to be able to turn such solution-mediated processes into successful directors of cellular response, a perfect understanding of the material-induced chemical reactions in situ is required. We therefore report on the application of home-made electrochemical microelectrodes, tested as pH and chloride sensors, for precise spatial and temporal characterization of different aqueous environments around calcium phosphate-based biomaterials prepared from α-tricalcium phosphate using clinically relevant liquid to powder ratios. The small size of the electrodes allowed for online measurements in traditionally inaccessible in vitro environments, such as the immediate material–liquid interface and the interior of curing bone cement. The kinetic data obtained has been compared to theoretical sorption models, confirming that the proposed setup can provide key information for improved understanding of the biochemical environment imposed by chemically reactive biomaterials.

(Re)writing (Hi)stories: Re-presenting the Gender/Class in the Postcolonial Discourse/Condition of Zhang Yimou’s Movies and Wang Chen-ho’s Novels

In this paper I aim to make a comparative study of Chang Yi-mou’s films and the novels of a Taiwanese regionalist novelist—Wang Chen-ho, for both of the two artists reveal great impulse of postcolonialist view in representing history and gender/class, though with different emphasis. Chang. is now one of the most successful movie directors in the Asia-Pacific region, just like Ang Lee, and enjoys high prestige and international fame—a great example of “globalization” and “multiculturalism,” whereas Wang has always been recognized as one of the most successful Taiwanese nativist (regionalist) novelists because of his experimental representation of the hybridized Taiwanese languages by skillfully blending “Chinglish,” Japanese, and other Taiwanese dialects within his story-telling. In other words, in this paper, I intend to make a comparative study of the micropolitics of how Chang’s and Wang’s works reveal a postcolonial discourse/condition in representing history/gender/class. Critical approaches that will be employed in this project are mainly the micropolitics in the postcolonialist poetics of Homi Bhabha, Said, and Deleuze and Guattari.

Portraits of Persistence: Professional Development of Successful Directors of Clinical Education

Portraits of Persistence: Professional Development of Successful Directors of Clinical Education

Feminist influences on the work of Yannick Bellon in the 1970s

Yannick Bellon is one of France's most commercially successful women directors, and is almost certainly the most successful woman film-maker of the 1970s. However, her work is little known abroad apart from the controversial rape movie, L'Amour violé (1977), and, with the exception of her early work in documentary, is usually dismissed by the French critical establishment as overly didactic. This paper traces through the different strands in her work in the 1970s, comparing her 'art films', Quelque part quelqu'un (1972) and Jamais plus toujours (1976) with the feminist-inspired ‘women's films’, La Femme de Jean (1973) and L'Amour violé, which gave her an entry into mainstream cinema (and which in turn gives way to the more postfeminist L'Amour nu at the beginning of the 1980s). It examines the strategies she uses to bring women's issues to a wide audience and assesses her achievements in the context of the debates about representations of women articulated by the MLF and feminist film theorists of the 1970s.

The Supermuses of Stage and Screen: Vietnam's Female Dramatists

According to Catherine Diamond's survey, Vietnam's contemporary theatre has an unusually large number of women participating in playwriting and directing. Several, as well as performing, are involved in both. Moreover, the plays being presented in the two largest cities, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, have female characters dominating the stage. The women dramatists exert an unusual amount of creative control in the theatre. Some work in close collaboration with male colleagues or have spouses in the theatre; others have been at odds with male management and prefer to work with other women artists. The predominance of successful women playwrights and directors may be the result of severalfactors: the centuries old tradition offemale-oriented theatre; the recent activities of women in military theatre troupes; the Communist Party's attempts to legislate equality in a society with lingeringfeudalistic attitudes; and women's transmission offamily traditions in theatre. Catherine Diamond is a professor of theatre in Taiwan, where she is a director with Thalie Theatre, Taiwan's only English-language troupe. Also a dancer, she has published several times in ATJ and has written fictional accounts of dancers in Asia in Sringara Tales.

The role of personnel directors on the board of directors

Examines the role of 28 personnel directors on the boards of private business and public sector organizations and offers an analysis of their influence and the factors explaining that influence. First, personnel directors adopted a business orientation directly involving them in business strategy, although this was more emergent than formally planned. Second, successful personnel directors required professional competence in HR proactively contributing to solving business problems. Third, excellent social skills in developing effective interpersonal relations with other board directors was important. A fourth factor was the management style of the MD/CEO including recognition that personnel could make a significant contribution to business goals. Where the MD held a strong people orientation, personnel was likely to have influence, whereas if the MD’s priorities lay elsewhere then the role was tougher, but not impossible.

Career Paths in American Luxury Hotels: Hotel Food and Beverage Directors

While much has been written on operational aspects of hotel food and beverage functions, the literature on career paths and background characteristics of successful food and beverage directors is quite sparse. A survey was distributed to all food and beverage directors of four and five star hotels in America to obtain a clear understanding of the career histories of food and beverage directors and to determine if there are any distinguishing characteristics in terms of demographics, education or experience which are possessed by successful food and beverage directors. Nearly all of the food and beverage directors reported having ambitions for higher positions, with hotel general manager the most preferred higher position. The results of the study have implications for hospitality education curriculum development and human resource planning in the luxury full service hotel industry.

Rehearsal Organizational Structures Used by Successful High School Choral Directors

Methodology textbooks disagree as to the most effective type of organizational structure to be used in choral rehearsal. Previous research, while supporting the use of rehearsal structure, added little support to any of the advocated designs. The author of this study sought to determine the type of rehearsal organizational structure used by successful Ohio high school choral directors. Relationships between rehearsal structure and either teaching style or student attitude were investigated. Results indicated that one rehearsal organizational structure was used predominantly. Results also indicated that a positive attitude toward chorus surfaced among students of all directors included in the sample, regardless of rehearsal structure used. In addition, some commonalities were found in perceived teaching style. Implications for both teacher training and choral rehearsal design are discussed.

Characteristics of successful directors of for‐profit child care centers

The need for quality child care is a national concern of increasing interest to parents, child care providers, employers, and policy‐makers in the United States. One of the newest entries in child care options available for consumers is for‐profit daycare chains. As for‐profit chains increase in both number and size, they will receive increased research attention. Few studies have examined for‐profit centers in general or the background characteristics of their directors specifically. The purpose of this research was to develop a profile of directors of for‐profit child care centers and to investigate whether certain background variables, such as level of education, differentiated “successful” from “unsuccessful” directors. Data were collected on 362 child care directors employed during a three‐year period with a nation‐wide daycare chain in the United States.

Marketing planning and Britain's disoriented directors

The author describes the predicament of directors who operated successfully during the 1960s and early 1970s and who now are facing a new dynamic and competitive environment in which tried and tested solutions no longer work. He suggests that successful directors and companies of the future will have to move towards a greater strategic emphasis if a balance between strategic and operational planning is to be achieved. It is concluded that those companies who choose to undertake this transformation will find it a traumatic experience.

A Comparison of the Attitudes of Civil Defense Directors and Community Leaders

To test the hypothesis that the relative lack of success of civil defense in the United States at the local level is due in part to differences in attitudes between those empowered to grant civil defense funds (local community leaders) and those requesting the funds (local civil defense directors), attitude questionnaires were sent to a number of civil defense directors and community leaders in three Midwestern states. Returns came from 297 civil defense directors and 70 community leaders. The returns indicated that the civil defense directors, as compared with community leaders, (x) felt that individuals could do more to control national problems, (2) distrusted Communists and "outsiders" more, (3) estimated world war as more likely, and (4) had a more positive evaluation of civil defense in general. It was also found that the most successful civil defense directors came from larger cities and were more "professionalized" (in terms of amount of past experience, tenure in civil defense, and paid full-time status) than were the less successful directors.