From my perspective, an even bigger award for
Sandra Bullock (who just won an
Oscar for Best Actress,) was her win at the
Razzies last Saturday night. She won for being the Worst Actress in a movie this past year (it was not for the same movie as the Oscar, by the way.)
How she treated the acceptance for the Golden Raspberry could be a model for grace under pressure for all of us. First, she showed up to receive the award. (She is only the second actress in the past thirty years to actually show up.) Second, she had fun with it. She joked that half the 700-some members would have had to watch the movie, so she was glad that at least 350 people had seen it. And she went on from there. The audience loved her.
Demonstrating you can take criticism with good humor builds credibility and likability. Oh, and there wasn't a PowerPoint slide in sight. No graphs showing why the movie (and her performance ) was great. Just her having fun.
If you'd like to see her Razzie acceptance speech,
click hereMy good friend and colleague at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Rick Day and I are going to conduct a very active one-day session
in Phoenix, AZ on March 23. if you live in that part of the country (or have some frequent flyer miles that you're trying to use) please join us. If you are interested, I encourage you to sign-up this week.
