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How to Make an Even Better Career Elevator Pitch

Let's Grow Leaders

For example, I could start with something like, “Have you ever had a bad boss?” For example, after someone is nodding their head profusely to the question, “Have you ever had a bad boss? What would you add?

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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

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. Here are three ways Catmull and his leadership team create a culture that consistently makes great films. Pixar’s purpose is to “make great films.” Care about people first.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From A Man Called Otto

Joseph Lalonde

The film changes the title and stars Tom Hanks as the cranky old man Otto. The film shows Otto’s multiple attempts at suicide (if you’re contemplating suicide, please reach out for help. This inspiring, encouraging film will make you laugh, cry, and want to live. He’s rude to the cashier ringing him up.

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

Great Leadership By Dan

Other times it involves imbedding structural elements into your overall management and leadership system, but in both cases it works. 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.”

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Recommended aim, with examples

Deming Institute

For example, with respect to employees, the aim might be to provide for them good management, opportunities for training and education for further growth, plus other contributors to joy in work and quality of life. The film is called A New Economy , and you can stream it on Netflix as of this writing.

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How Leaders Become Strategists

Skip Prichard

Marvel is a nice example. The big opportunity lay in making Marvel characters into feature films. One problem was classic chicken-and-egg: Studio licensing offers were low because there had not yet been a successful major film based on Marvel characters. Marvel raised money from Wall Street to pay for an independent studio.

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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

Great Leadership By Dan

For example I have a growth mindset about my career but I have a fixed mindset about the upsides of parachuting from a perfectly flyable aeroplane! A recent example from Hollywood was the successful remake of “A Star is Born” driven and starring Bradley Cooper. Leadership gets the team going and management keeps it going.

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