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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

Great Leadership By Dan

High-performance leaders operate with a growth mindset and are great communicators. A growth mindset means they operate with: 1. They operate with an abundant, as opposed to a scarcity, mindset. Titled Leaders” operate from a scarcity mindset. I have grown up around high-performance sport. Curiosity 3.

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Holographic Light Field Displays

Strategy Driven

Unlike 3D films made for the cinema or stereoscopic televisions operating with glasses, such 3D displays require proprietary content combining as many as eight discrete images. Next-generation 3D monitors allow operators to see topographies and military unit deployments in greater detail–on land, underwater, or in the air.

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Using Analytics to Predict Hollywood Blockbusters

Harvard Business Review

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time.

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Using Analytics to Predict Hollywood Blockbusters

Harvard Business Review

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time.

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Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

Chartered Management Institute

This premise equally applies to the environment businesses operate in today. Human error is a very real consequence of people operating in the real world. Human error is a very real consequence of people operating in the real world. Most of the time, those trade-offs are validated, because we don't have an adverse outcome.

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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. Or consider U.S. Or consider U.S.

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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. No wasted film, slides, or prints. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure.

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