Peter Guber
Successful executive and entrepreneur
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- Peter Guber is a successful executive and entrepreneur;
- Chairman & CEO, Mandalay Entertainment Group;
- Owner and Co‐Executive chairman, NBA’s Golden State Warriors;
- Owner, Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers;
- Owner and Executive Chairman, Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC)
- Owner and Chairman, Dick Clark Productions;
- Former Chairman & CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment;
- Former President, Columbia Pictures;
- Former Chairman & CEO, Polygram Pictures;
- Former Co‐owner & Co‐chairman, Casablanca Record & Filmworks;
- Among the hit movies he produced are Batman, Rain Man, Gorillas In The Mist, Midnight Express and Flashdance. Collectively, the films he personally produced have earned over $3 billion worldwide and have been honored with more than 50 Academy Award nominations, including winning Best Picture for Rain Man;
- His recent business book, Tell To Win ‐ Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com bestseller.
- He is teaching in his 40th consecutive year at UCLA;
- He is a weekly contributing analyst for Fox Business News;
- He publishes original content on LinkedIn as one of LinkedIn’s 150 Global Thought Leaders
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Peter Guber is Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group. Prior to Mandalay, Guber was Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainment, Owner and Co-Founder of Casablanca Record & Filmworks and President of Columbia Pictures. Guber produced or executive produced (personally or through his companies) films that garnered five Best Picture Academy Award nominations (winning for Rain Man) and box office hits that include The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Batman, Flashdance, The Kids Are All Right and Soul Surfer.
Peter Guber is operating Owner of the 2015, 2017 and 2018 NBA Champion Golden State Warriors, an Owner of the five-time National League West Champion, Los Angeles Dodgers, and an Owner and Executive Chairman of Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC). Peter Guber is Co-Executive Chairman of aXiomatic, a broad-based esports and gaming company which owns Team Liquid, a premier esports team. Peter Guber is a Regent of the University of California and has been a professor at UCLA for 40 years.
Peter Guber is a noted author with works including Shootout: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood, which became a 7-year television series on AMC which he hosted. He wrote the cover article for the Harvard Business Review titled, The Four Truths of the Storyteller. His most recent business book, Tell To Win – Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
Leaders in uncertain times cannot wait for a return to “normalcy.” This is not the moment to be risk-averse. You must be an agent of change or you’ll soon find yourself and your organization in a permanent state of “dormancy.”
Achieving success in today’s high-consequence, highly uncertain, and rapidly-changing world requires that leaders be adept in living and acting out of their comfort zones. Organizations must keep a keen eye for incremental change, but leadership must look for exponential opportunities.
Through Peter Guber’s four decades of business experience across diverse industries, he’s organized certain F.A.C.T.S. that are crucial to leading and succeeding in uncertain times. Be motivated by a renowned leader who knows how to gain and sustain competitive advantage during times of uncertainty.
Stories are a misunderstood, misused, and underutilized asset in business. The ability to tell a purposeful story well can be a highly powerful professional tool that can propel success for anyone in any industry. In this entertaining, enlightening and informative presentation, “StoryMan” Peter Guber shares his methodology of how to employ purposeful storytelling to sell more products/services, rebrand your product or company, lead more persuasively, manage more effectively, inspire greater creativity, and foster deeper collaboration.
What is the secret sauce behind…
- Turning an NBA franchise from worst to first and winning 3 championships in 4 years?
- Building world-class stadiums and venues?
- Rallying an enterprise to embrace a new technology?
- Producing Academy Award-winning movies?
The secret sauce is building a winning team. Few create high performance, winning teams in diverse industries with repeated success like Peter Guber.
Rich in stories spanning his vast career as a successful executive and entrepreneur, Guber reveals three core navigational stakes critical to define, design, create, and implement a winning team: a robust culture, a tolerance for risk, and the ability for every member to articulate the promise, process and product.
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