Ken Burns Talks About Leadership, Productivity and Achieving Immortality Through Storytelling With his latest opus due out this month and a half-dozen more films on the way, the director and historian Ken Burns has learned a lot about how to manage big teams through even bigger projects.
By Dan Bova
This story appears in the September 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns is responsible for such genre-defining and genre- defying documentary series as The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz, to name a few. As he and collaborator Lynn Novick prepare to debut their new 10-part documentary film series The Vietnam War on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide, we spoke with the tireless documentarian about leadership, productivity, managing gigantic projects and how to achieve immortality through storytelling.
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So you just finished this incredible documentary about Vietnam. Are you already thinking of the next three documentaries down the road?
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