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Leadership & The Value Of An Inquiring Mind

You're Not the Boss of Me

Seth Godin, speaks here about curiosity in this short film by Nic Askew. He is eloquent…and curious Watching this film, I realize that my own curiosity muscle, while healthy enough, is not as strong as I would like it to be. Why do we do things this way instead of that ? What does the future hold? What don’t we know?

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Making A Transition to Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

For instance, as individual contributors, we often develop relationships with our co-workers, many of whom may actually become our friends. 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.

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Managing and Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan

You're Not the Boss of Me

The rest of the story is about how they actually created, developed and presented this now, much celebrated opera. Who knew there were leadership lessons to be learned from this film — thanks for your insight! There are some films that just strike a note and this was one of them. It is there, that The Mikado is conceived.

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Getting Culture Right

You're Not the Boss of Me

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. And it suggests that the primary task of many of its employees is to find ways of being paid while doing as little as possible.

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Facing the Blank Wall | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

As Dorothy so wisely advises, we will write when *we* are ready Reply Wendy Mason December 20, 2010 at 2:22 pm Hi Gwyn – loved the film! I didn’t know the film but it seems like it was a fun one! I find comfort in knowing that we share a “common wall” if only for a time. As always I appreciate the kind words of a friend.

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Building Awareness ~ Lessons from the Moon walking Bear | You're.

You're Not the Boss of Me

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?