Ken Lindner owns and is the Chief Executive Officer of one of the world's
most successful and well-respected broadcast journalist representation
companies, Ken Lindner & Associates, Inc.<,p>
Ken graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Social
Anthropology. His course selection was centered on the human thought process
and conflict resolution. During his college career, he wrote an honors thesis
on decision-making that received national attention. This paper was based upon
empirical research done with hundreds of respondents. He studied how these
individuals thought, ordered their values, and made their decisions when
exposed to certain situations and stimuli. This thesis was also awarded a grade
of Magna Cum Laude.<,p>
While at Harvard, Ken was the Captain and the #1 player on the Varsity
Tennis Team. He captured the Princeton Invitational Indoor Intercollegiate
Doubles Championship, won numerous singles and doubles tennis titles, and
defeated Arthur Ashe in a match that took place one year before Ashe won his
Wimbledon Singles Title. In addition, he was the Men's National Open Paddle
Tennis Doubles Champion.
Ken then attended Cornell Law School, so that he could further study
conflict resolution and learn to think through and analyze issues in a more
orderly fashion. It was there that he developed his strong interest in the
First Amendment. In 1978, he was awarded his Juris Doctorate degree.
Upon graduation from Cornell, he worked as an attorney in the Business
Affairs Department of the William Morris Agency. Within two years, he became
Assistant to the President, and then an agent in the News Department.
Thereafter, he was promoted to Vice President in charge of the West Coast News
Division. In 1988, he left Wiliam Morris and founded Ken Lindner & Associates,
Inc. Approximately 95 percent of his clients followed him.
During the past 16 years, Ken has specialized in all areas of broadcasting,
i.e., as a talent representative and as an attorney who has negotiated and
worked on more than 2,000 broadcasting and other television-related contracts.
He has derived his greatest sense of accomplishment by helping to develop the
careers of some of this country's most prominent and influential current and
next-generation broadcast journalists including MaP Lauer, Elizabeth Vargas,
Lester Holt, Paula Zahn, Nancy O'Dell, Dayna Devon, and Ann Curry, among many
others.
Ken drew on his expertise in the field for his first book, Broadcasting
Realities (1999), which is considered the standard in the psychology of
broadcasting for broadcast journalists and those aspiring to be on-air. The aim
of the book is to acquaint and equip his readers with the requisite knowledge
to reach informed and enhancing decisions. All royalties from this book have
been donated to charity.
CRUNCH TIME provides the necessary tools for reevaluating and rebuilding our
decision-making foundations and processes, and then solidly reinforcing them
with the internal goods that allow us to make emotionally intelligent
decisions.
More than a quick fix, CRUNCH TIME acknowledges both the cerebral and the
deeper emotional component of decision-making and behavior. Noting that the
powerful force of negative emotions can often cloud our judgment and lead us to
reach self-destructive decisions, Lindner shows how this can be counteracted or
vitiated through various anticipatory, preparatory, and nullifying Steps. The
most potent of those is FRAMINGTM, a groundbreaking psychological process that
he has developed and used with extraordinary results.
