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Ken Burns Talks About Leadership, Productivity and Achieving Immortality Through Storytelling与他最新的作品将于本月半-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.

ByDan Bova•

This story appears in theSeptember 2017issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

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Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns is responsible for such genre-defining and genre- defying documentary series asThe Civil War,Baseball,andJazz,to name a few. As he and collaborator Lynn Novick prepare to debut their new 10-part documentary film seriesTheVietnam Waron September 17 on PBS stations nationwide, we spoke with the tireless documentarian aboutleadership, productivity, managing gigantic projects and how to achieve immortality throughstorytelling.

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