This article was written by Jane M. Von Bergen.

“A kid raised in a blue-collar home in Los Angeles, who got into trouble in school, who managed to scrape his way into an acting and directing career, and then went on to create a world-renowned film festival that changed the fortunes of independent filmmakers . . .

. . . Even a person like that, even a person like Robert Redford, can screw it up.

Redford’s faults: hiring badly, impatience, inability to communicate, ineffective relations with subordinates.

He laid them all out Thursday before an audience of about 300 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre at a seminar sponsored by the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia and by Towers Watson & Co., a human resources consulting firm.”

Read the rest of this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer.