In time, Mrs. McLean became the collective's executive director, winning project grants over the years from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Greater Hartford Arts Council, United Technologies, United Parcel Service and the Federal Department of Housing and Human Development.
It is part of a suite of behaviors under the collective term "executive function".
"We offer this year's Rebel-a-Thon as an opportunity to highlight the important contributions made by women filmmakers," Tilane Jones, the collective's executive director, said in a statement Tuesday.
And while airline loyalty programs are hardly matters of life and death, collective consumer action has gotten the attention of corporate executives in other equally less consequential industries.
A prime minister and his cabinet, chosen from the largest political group in the legislature, held collective responsibility for executive functions.
However, one such exclusive, burgeoning collective entitled #AIShowbiz Executive Roundtable is making particular moves.
I thought we were passed this (by "we" I refer to the collective group of executives, managers, consultants and leaders out here).
"Richard shocked everybody," says Matthew E. Rubel, the chief executive of Collective Brands, which runs businesses like Payless ShoeSource.
His casting was "a brilliant stroke by our partners at Animation Collective," said Ken Katsumoto, an executive producer for the new series.
"You can't solve the problems of the labor movement or the progressive movement until you restore the belief in collective power," said Karen Nussbaum, executive director of Working America, an A.F.L.-C.I.O.
