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14 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Adam Sandler’s Pixels

Joseph Lalonde

President Will Cooper – You’re meant for something more than this. Cooper, his friend, knew Same still had potential. Inexperience doesn’t mean you lack knowledge – President Cooper noticed something odd about the attack on the US military base. President Will Cooper – Let the nerds take over.

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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

The best policy may be to avoid incentives altogether and focus instead on creating systems in which intrinsic motivation, cooperation, ethical behavior, trust, creativity, and joy in work can flourish. In those cases where the slogan is actually used as a hammer to blame employees when results disappoint is when it does cause damage.

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Collaboration Is Risky. Now, Get on with It.

Harvard Business Review

In this farmer's market of ideas, we can place our 140-character wares on display, and begin to identify those who potentially see the world as we do. Once we've worked on a few limited scope projects and hammered out the rules of engagement, it's important to give authority to our collaborators. A perfect example of this is Twitter.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. Whelan : We’ve seen a sea change in the last 10 years around company and NGO engagement — it’s far more cooperative.