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How to Harness the Power of Empathy for Effective Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Now, the types of leadership qualities that show up on list after list are there for good reason. However, when you look closely, you discover that it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. Immerse yourself in films, documentaries, biographies, theater, art, or music.

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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: Pixar has been phenomenally successful with the likes of Toy Story , The Incredibles , Finding Nemo, and Up, to name but a few of its films.

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Slow Decline of Eastman Kodak due to an Inability to Reinvent

Coaching Tip

The film giant gave us the "Kodak Moment," which persists as the quintessential photographic experience even though in today''s digital camera age "selfies" on smartphones are a major factor. Creative changes in customers'' taste, technologies and global economic circumstance continue to destroy the Kodaks of this world.

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Enhance Your Communication Skills with Constructive Feedback

Strategy Driven

Early on in my career, I was consulting for a major film and music studio in Los Angeles when a woman approached me to say, “Dr. In both my Art of Leadership and Core Creativity workshops, I’ll often ask: Would you like my feedback as mild, medium, or severe — like the hottest salsa? About the Author.

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Are You Recognizing Your People’s Best Ideas?

Great Leadership By Dan

Kodak invented the digital camera and never marketed it because executives saw it as a lower quality competitor to film. In an organization, a hierarchy with levels of people who each suffer from the same bias against creative ideas, the effect can be devastating. and assistant professor of management at Oral Roberts University.

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Getting From Idea To Execution: 5 Lessons From a Kickstarter Video

Terry Starbucker

2) Get out of the way and let the talented people do their job – For leaders it’s a natural tendency to want to “meddle” in creative things (ask any Marketing Manager), and in this project it was really hard not to do that. After all, we were filming a video – how cool it that? Leadership'

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The September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! Yes, it's back to school shopping time, and this month's Carnival gives leaders and aspiring leaders a shopping cart full of leadership development supplies. Check out the cute Pixar film at the end. Where are you on your leadership journey?