Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

After studying Hollywood actors for three years, MIT Professor Ezra Zuckerman found that actors who typecast themselves (PDF) early in their careers tend to earn more money, have longer lifespans, and enjoy more fame compared to generalist actors. Over the long term, that is a career strategy with diminishing returns.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 26, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← The Practical Gift of Humility Becoming a leader…Shifting the Balance of Power. Seth Godin, speaks here about curiosity in this short film by Nic Askew. Why do we do things this way instead of that ? What does the future hold? What don’t we know?

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Silverman Leadership Godin Film 49

Roundtable Talk

JULY 19, 2010

Skip to content Home Welcome! management expectations, groupies, fame, fortune) is demonstrated time after time through the film retrospective. Watching the film, you can’t help but be impressed with the group’s camaraderie and commitment to each other. Leadership lesson: Careers don’t happen overnight either.

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Leadership Teamwork Film Blog 37

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. No wasted film, slides, or prints.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 13, 2010

Skip to content Home Welcome! They seem to be everywhere these days, but after watching Anna Wintour of Vogue in the fascinating movie The September Issue , I began to wonder if there were any career benefits to working for an abusive boss. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet. When working for a lousy leader might pay off.

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Fashion Transportation Blog Godin 28

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver. Want to learn more about what diving can teach managers about navigating risk? Additional reporting by David Waller.

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Uncertainty Risk Management Training Compliance 52

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. No wasted film, slides, or prints.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

Over the course of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with people doing extraordinary things: inventors, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, and even a Buddhist master. Long before a computer-animated feature film was technically possible, Catmull and Lasseter were determined to make one. Even top executives were excluded.

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Film Storytelling Bureaucracy Resistance 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 22, 2011

The movie is called Glory , a wonderful, often heart wrenching, sometimes graphic film. One of my earlier experiences in becoming a leader and supervisor was during my career in the Air Force. In 1989, a movie was made about the 54 th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , a Civil War regiment comprised of all African American men.

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Shaw Leadership Hersey Blog 58

You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 19, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Servant Leadership…Creating an Environment of Service The Power of Diversity → December 19, 2010 · 6:35 pm ↓ Jump to Comments Facing the Blank Wall I’m having some trouble, blog-wise, this week.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Celebrate Good Times…Come On! While it is a clever film, it highlights very disturbing things that go on in some organizations. And, over the course of my career, I have also occasionally done some of these things as well.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In uncertain times, if leaders don't tell and sell a purposeful story that incites their employees, partners, investors, boards of directors, and other stakeholders to manage fear, confront uncertainty, and collaborate with change, someone else will write their future. My management team bought into it and executed on the story.

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Transportation Uncertainty Film Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I was graduating with a master''s degree in theological studies; aiming for a career in academia, I had been utterly unconcerned about the practical applicability of my degree. That''s why you need to emphasize your skills, not your content expertise. Career planning Education Job search' South American literature?

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Ask Atma

APRIL 5, 2011

Overtime Ekman added: contempt, surprise, amusement, embarrassment, guilt, pride, contentment, relief, satisfaction, sensory pleasure and shame. Famed film and television producer Brian Grazer created a show based largely on Dr. Ekman’s work. In the five-minute film one twin start to fuss and cry while the other remains calm.

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Film Management System Follow-up 63

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The wise employee has the building of knowledge a part of their career path… sharing with others what we most recently and most effectively learn. Managers and employees with the most to lose are most fearful of change. This resurgence in photography comes after a conversion of the industry from film to digital.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 16, 2011

Please watch the film. It made me think about how easy it is to miss what’s going on, even when it’s right in front of us. It takes less than a minute. How’d you do? Did you get the number of passes right? In fact, I felt quite proud of myself until I realized what I had missed.

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Self-aware Film Blog Diversity 63

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

My analysis: Productivity software does no good unless one commits to change, alters behavioral traits and commits to time management. Many managers have poor people skills, as well as poor verbal-written communications skills. Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings.

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