Michael Ovitz

Try a skill

• Compound your frame of reference

  I repeat mistakes because useful conversations do not become learning.

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What this guide draws on

2 original summaries of public sources. Partial coverage, not full books or transcripts.

• CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option

  Your edge is frame of reference, a lifetime of meetings and outcomes; compound it with integrity, follow-up, and refusing to fail.

• Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: 'I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them'

  Business fundamentals never change across industries, so refuse to be typecast as a specialist, protect other people's vision the way you protect your own, and let conviction plus outworking everyone else make up for whatever the doubters say cannot be done.