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The Big Picture of Business- Flip Sides, Second Acts and Successful Careers

Strategy Driven

It used to be said that people have three careers in them. Bacharach started his music writing career by taking 'work for hire,' tailoring songs to particular performers. We benefit from going back and learning from our own early Body of Work, assuming that we stratregized our career to be a long-term thing, as Burt Bacharach did.

Career 50
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The Leadership Legacy Of A Childhood Hero

Tanveer Naseer

Even years later when Nimoy moved behind the camera to direct the fourth Star Trek film, he used his position as the film’s director and co-writer to ensure that each of his cast mates had a scene where they would be the focus of the film. Rather, we hear about how his actions and words impacted these individuals.

Film 100
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The Right Kind of Stress Can Bond Your Team Together

Harvard Business Review

In the film, we explored how to create a positive culture in organizations where the culture or conditions make it difficult to talk about “happiness.” ” During the first half of the documentary, we examined the NFL to see how people create happiness in an organization where the average career is 3.3

Bond 8
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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From The Hitman’s Bodyguard

Joseph Lalonde

His career as a protection agent was done regardless of the planning and care he’d put into the job. Kincaid forms a bond with the nuns and they rally around him. Pam and I laughed through quite a bit of the film, along with the rest of the audience. One day a perfectly planned mission went awry. They need you. They laugh.

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Prof K’s Brand Narrative Manifesto – Differentiate Emotionally and Activate Passion

Strategy Driven

And, in these days of less and less product differentiation and of customers with little time and desire to sift through mountains of information to select the product that is best, this emotional bond can separate one brand from another and build long term loyalty.

Brand 50
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If You're Not Selling, Turn Off the Computer

Harvard Business Review

Two thirds of the way through the latest James Bond film, Skyfall, Bond decides the time has come to go old school. The danger is that if you fall for all this, your business risks the fate of Bond's latest foe, the dastardly Mr. Silva. Such methods rarely sustain a lifelong career in sales.

Bond 15
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Is Your Boss a Psychopath?

Harvard Business Review

The debauchery-laden film by Martin Scorsese The Wolf of Wall Street is a prime example of financial corruption, excess, and corporate greed. Unlike fundamental psychopaths, born without the capacity to form emotional bonds (due to possible genetic abnormalities), “lite” psychopaths are usually the products of their childhoods.