Next, Shonda Rhimes is daring and bold, both in her life and with her characters. To achieve Shonda's level of success, you must be bold in the scripts that you write. We notice Shonda always including strong female leads, LGBT characters, and intense inter-racial relationships that make other shows blush. She wants to show the world a portfolio of super-strong female characters that constantly play hardball. Rhimes was a pioneer using diversity with her cast, whether this diversity was based purely on gender or race. She has stated that she believes "everyone should get to see their lives reflected on television[…] I love all my gay and lesbian friends […] I think same-sex marriage is the civil rights fight of our era" (Rhimes, 2014). The inter-racial exchanges are front-and-center and incomparable to any other current show (e.g. who can forget the steamy scenes between Olivia Pope and President Grant III on Scandal?). Love knows no bounds and no color in
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Your job is to help these people climb the ladder of success. This may seem counterintuitive, but Shonda Rhimes knows her limitations and weaknesses. Her global brain actually relies on smaller but ambitious brains to keep her fire lit. She normally hires a creative assistant whose sole job is to follow her around and go everywhere she goes. This assistant becomes her memory and her brain, he becomes her proxy, but more importantly, he helps Shonda operate on auto-pilot. Shonda sums up this role as follows: "What's great for Daniel (her assistant) is that he gets to be involved in every creative process I'm involved in. What's great for me is that I have a terrible memory and [Daniel] can remember everything for me" (McCorvey, 2016). Shonda allows these people to rise professionally over the years. The lesson we learn here is that we have to allow people to become the decision makers in our place, much like a proxy or
Your job is to help these people climb the ladder of success. This may seem counterintuitive, but Shonda Rhimes knows her limitations and weaknesses. Her global brain actually relies on smaller but ambitious brains to keep her fire lit. She normally hires a creative assistant whose sole job is to follow her around and go everywhere she goes. This assistant becomes her memory and her brain, he becomes her proxy, but more importantly, he helps Shonda operate on auto-pilot. Shonda sums up this role as follows: "What's great for Daniel (her assistant) is that he gets to be involved in every creative process I'm involved in. What's great for me is that I have a terrible memory and [Daniel] can remember everything for me" (McCorvey, 2016). Shonda allows these people to rise professionally over the years. The lesson we learn here is that we have to allow people to become the decision makers in our place, much like a proxy or