In a recent piece for The Harvard Business Review, I laid out some of Cameron’s rules of management, gleaned as I watched him work on the Avatar set and interviewed him and about 50 of his colleagues. You can read the whole thing here, along with some interesting comments from entrepreneurs about how Cameron-style leadership would or would not work in their industries. One commenter brings up the restaurant world’s version of Cameron—Gordon Ramsay. I hadn’t thought of it before, but it’s a great analogy, another wildly successful, hard-driving perfectionist prone to dropping f-bombs.




