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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Blade Of The 47 Ronin

Joseph Lalonde

Blade Of The 47 Ronin is a sequel to the 2013 Keanu Reeves film 47 Ronin. Shinsharo: Protect here at all costs. After the ninja had breached the samurai safehouse, Shinsharo commanded the samurai to protect Luna at all costs. Luna wasn’t trained in the ways of a samurai. She would need to be trained.

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How to Harness the Power of Empathy for Effective Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Imagine: a leader who knows how to gain efficiencies, decrease costs, increase employee retention, and inspire customer loyalty based on taking another’s point of view? Here are seven simple ways to train yourself to lead more empathetically: 1. Immerse yourself in films, documentaries, biographies, theater, art, or music.

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Here’s a Leadership Hack for 2017: Start finding ways to Invert Control

Great Leadership By Dan

Car salesmen, for example, are trained to not directly ask a customer if he or she wants to buy the car they were looking at because that leads them to a binary option and potentially a fast, “No.” Here’s an example from my place of work; the film set. Salesmen know the power behind carefully crafted language.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From X-Men

Joseph Lalonde

This date was the release date of the original 20th Century Fox film X-Men. Except one thing never happened: These two films didn’t kickstart the comic book movie craze. Still, his actions almost cost Rogue her life. He finds her seated on a train taking her to who knows where. Both of those movies were fun.

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The #1 Obstacle to Great Workplace Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Taylor’s organization recently set up a pop-up coffee house in the middle of the Oculus at the World Trade Center complex in New York City to bring attention to the issue and its new report titled “ The High Cost of a Toxic Workplace Culture: How Culture Impacts the Workforce—and The Bottom Line.”.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Joseph Lalonde

The Last Jedi tells the story of Rey (Daisy Ridley) pursuing Luke Skywalker (Mark Hammill) to train her in the Jedi ways. Luke is a broken man after Kylo Ren/Ben Solo (Adam Driver) destroyed the Jedi training center Luke had built and killed most of the Jedi students. He knew Rey didn’t NEED him to train her. She saw it.

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Leadership Lessons from The Last Dragon

Modern Servant Leader

Wikipedia summarizes the movie well: “The Last Dragon is a 1985 martial arts musical film… (that) was a critical disappointment but a financial success, The Last Dragon is now considered a cult classic.” Leroy : Master, perhaps with more time to train… Master I need more time -. Mentors will always be there.

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