15) The Wall
“I used to say this to the staff,
‘We’re all working very hard, but pause and reflect,
because not many people in their professional lives ever get the chance that we’re having.”
Tony Cox
It’s New York, the early 1980s, and if you were young, still relatively new to The City, looking for only your first or second job, it would’ve been hard to find a more exciting – or fun – place to work than Home Box Office. It was a great, grand time for the company, one in which it was hard not to feel you were part of what still felt like an adventure into unmapped territory, where success followed success, and where – as I remember one of my colleagues saying in reflection – it often seemed like one, big party. In an HBO 20th anniversary commemorative brochure, Tony Cox, one-time president of the HBO Network group,...
“I used to say this to the staff,
‘We’re all working very hard, but pause and reflect,
because not many people in their professional lives ever get the chance that we’re having.”
Tony Cox
It’s New York, the early 1980s, and if you were young, still relatively new to The City, looking for only your first or second job, it would’ve been hard to find a more exciting – or fun – place to work than Home Box Office. It was a great, grand time for the company, one in which it was hard not to feel you were part of what still felt like an adventure into unmapped territory, where success followed success, and where – as I remember one of my colleagues saying in reflection – it often seemed like one, big party. In an HBO 20th anniversary commemorative brochure, Tony Cox, one-time president of the HBO Network group,...
- 9/16/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
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