Brandon M. Haskins
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Chief creative officer |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I'm a laid-back, well-dressed, messy-facial-haired junkie of all things business, and all things culture. One could describe me as loud and energetic, while someone else could describe me as quiet and intellectual—and both would be correct. I'm often late, but rarely absent. I'm occasionally alone, but I have a great network. I never use conditioner in my hair, but I love to pamper myself. I rarely do the speed limit, but seldom get tickets. I'm always on top of the situation, but behind the scenes—and I prefer it that way. I'm liberal to the bone, but capitalism is in my DNA. I'm open-minded, not absent-minded. I'm an over-achiever, and a make-believer—but never a cheater. Where I lack in compassion, I make up for with energy, drive, humility, generosity and humor. I DIG PEOPLE WHO: love to learn, have at least one burning passion in life, take risks, can explain complicated things in interesting ways, bring out the best in others, appreciate their mistakes, act in the face of fear and especially those who enjoy talking about others more than themselves. |
| Interests | Business, politics, food, wine, innovation, marketing, technology, advertising, strategy, management, design, movies, music, literature (kind of in that order) |
| Favorite movies | Avatar, GI Joe, Transformers, District 9, Revolutionary Road, Star Trek, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Australia, Slumdog Millionaire, Blues Brothers 2000, Let the Right One In, Son of Rambo, Pan's Labyrinth, The Pursuit of Happyness, Babel, The Kite Runner, Crash, Thank You for Smoking, Rock School (not School of Rock, but I did like that too), The Squid and the Whale, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Garden State, Innocent Eyes, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Cruel Intentions, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Office Space |
| Favorite music | MGMT, LMFAO, The Decemberists, Over The Rhine, Matt and Kim, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson, Kings of Leon, Iron & Wine, Shiny Toy Guns, Ben Folds, Coldplay, Kanye West, Corinne Bailey Rae, Death Cab for Cutie, Hellogoodbye, Imogen Heap, Lady GaGa, M.I.A., Mika, Moby, Norah Jones, Wiz Khalifa, Oasis, Rediscover, Regina Spektor, Scissor Sisters, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, The Format, The Postal Service, The Verve |
| Favorite books | BOOKS: Why Evolution is True, A Whole New Mind, Free, Crude World, Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, Generation Me, Deluxe, Can a Smart Person Believe in God?, Winning, Because He Could, Hedge Hunters, Inside the House of Money, Bad Money, Wealth, War and Wisdom, The World Is Flat, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, The Wisdom of Crowds, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently, Freakonomics, Made to Stick, Fool's Gold, Lords of Finance, The Last Tycoons, House of Cards, Strengths-Based Leadership, Power Ambition Glory, A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, The Accidental Billionaires, Brain Rules, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, How to Win Friends & Influence People, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, How the Mighty Fall, Built to Last, Good to Great, The 48 Laws of Power, Outliers, The Tipping Point, Blink, The Intellectual Devotional, Natural Capitalism, Strategy for Sustainability, The Long Tail, Executive Warfare, Plugged In, Rich Like Them, Tribes, The Shadows of Consumption, Dumbfounded: Big Money. Big Hair. Big Problems. Or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies. // MAGAZINES: Bloomberg, Trader Monthly, Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, New York, Inc, Entrepreneur, Wired, Mental_floss // BLOGS: TED, Strategy+Business, TechCrunch // NEWSPAPERS: Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington |