Notes from the Badlands

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My new novel is set in East Village in the Nineties.

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Bruce Craven. Hi Bruce, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today? I graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, then received my MFA in poetry from Columbia University in […]

Writer's have to persevere. At times, the lack or resources, support and opportunities to succeed feel unfair, soul-crushing...but then you realize building resilience is the whole journey. Writing is your quest, resilience is your sword.

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Sweet Ride by Bruce Craven

Romance, abandon...and realizing when it's time to go save the cat from the rain-storm in Manhattan. The first part of Sweet Ride is a Nineties version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, strongly influenced by the years when myself and my friends tended bar in the East Village. The second part of the novel? Well, you'll have to read it...

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My new novel, Sweet Ride, is set in NYC in the Nineties...back in the wild days. It is now available from Codhill Press and on Amazon.

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Columbia Bizcast: Bruce Craven

Leadership lessons from Jon Snow, Ned Stark, and Professor Bruce Craven.

I did this podcast in 2019, the month my book was published and right after teaching my class Leadership through Fiction.

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Developed in response to intense client demand, our new Executive Access series offers short programs that provide you with immediate, actionable insights in light of the current pandemic and its economic aftermath. The next program in the series is Your Hero's Journey: Be Proactive, Confront Challenges, and Succeed, taught by long-time Executive Education faculty member Bruce Craven.

This workshop has been taught to senior business leaders in both public and private industries around the globe, as well as to classes of MBA and EMBA students focused on developing their leadership.

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CIVIL WAR ERA POEMS: Here are sonnets looking at the intensity of the mid-1800s...with awareness of our struggles as a nation in 2020. The leader of our current federal government wants to leverage the political advantage of polarizing the country to give him an enemy to assault. He doesn't understand history, but he does understand reinterpreting history and getting attention. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and many more people with courage and vision fought for ideals that were new in the 1800s...and are still fragile and must be protected.

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Bruce Craven is a member of the Columbia Business School Executive Education faculty in New York City. In addition to directing and teaching in a variety of executive programs, he teaches graduate …

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Adventures in leadership...based on life in Pentos and Westeros. Valar Dohaeris!

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Teaching leadership through fictional stories...& some non-fiction examples -- like Frederick Douglass.

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Photo from a spur-of-the-moment roadtrip from Santa Monica to Utah...'98. Drove to Malibu with surfboards, but couldn't find place to camp, dropped off boards and drove to Zion National Park to hike.

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From a series: "The Outlaw Poems"

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Joseph Campbell suggests myths can guide us on our quest for fulfillment.

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Leadership Lesson: Tyrion moves from trying to be satisfied with external rewards in Westeros...to finding internal satisfaction, for a while, in Essos. He was forced in Essos to be his own best advocate...& not rely on the family name. Part of the focus of Chapter 5 in "Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones"

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Leadership Lesson from Game of Thrones: don't assume you understand everyone's values. If so, you might be very wrong.

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The Serbian, US and UK covers of "Win or Die".