Sunday, July 26, 2009

Hollywood mogul credits business acumen to dyslexia

In the New York Times, a profile of Ariel Z. Emmanuel, head of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment and one of Hollywood’s pre-eminent players. His brother Rahm is the White House chief of staff.
Speaking at charity benefit for the Lab School of Washington and Baltimore two years ago, Ari Emanuel said his business style has its origins in his struggle with dyslexia.

An excerpt:
Captured in a video now posted on YouTube, a nervous Mr. Emanuel said that dyslexics, if they overcome their disability at all, do so by inventing a path of their own. The effort “actually provides them with insight to find inventive solutions to life and in business that others when they’re in those situations probably never find,” Mr. Emanuel said.

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