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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. They master challenges with a characteristic approach, and echo the habits of renowned innovators and entrepreneurs. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films.

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Holographic Light Field Displays

Strategy Driven

Leapfrogging advances in materials, photonics, optics, and electronics have precipitated a rising demand for 3D display technologies. The increased demand for enhanced imaging and the adoption of 3D technologies in smartphones, HMD devices, projector devices, and monitors are expected to catapult 3D displays across a new threshold of realism.

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The First Secret of Success Is Showing Up

Harvard Business Review

A classic old film comedy, Being There , stars the late Peter Sellers as dimwitted Chance the Gardener, who tended the grounds for a wealthy elderly gentleman. Instead, the firm remained firmly in Rochester, New York, capital of an older technology era. How much on-the-ground presence is needed, and for what kinds of activities?

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

And the essence of Walt Disney’s original strategy remains intact today: to construct a range of businesses — from animated film to fun parks, TV, retail, cruise ships, and more — around a group of engaging, family-friendly characters. Digital technology overwhelmed Kodak’s once-formidable business in photography. Strategy'

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Using a sports analogy, the author breaks the work of leaders into three parts: pregame: a matter of character; game day: a matter of competence; and post-game: a matter of consequence. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Because innovation requires it.

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The Dinosaurs of Cannes

Harvard Business Review

It''s a sight to behold, with 11,000 agency folk, clients and technology companies from every corner of the earth coming together in one place. But, while the industry is partying, all on the client''s dime, the world around us is radically changing as digital technology evolves the way we all communicate. See you next year in Cannes.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”