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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.

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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. People who behave like this are what I call Seductive Operational Bullies (SOBs). Some of these people rise to astonishing heights, but in the process they cause enormous damage.

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Why Uber and Airbnb Needed a Different Kind of CEO

Harvard Business Review

At Uber, the idea for the business has been portrayed as this stroke of ingenuity, but I learned it was actually inspired by a product placement in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. There are often multiple people, some of whom don’t hang around, so these stories evolve over time.

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Use Social Media to Build Emotional Capital

Harvard Business Review

Even operational efficiency was unaffected. When employees identify common non-work related interests among each other and forge informal bonds, they will eventually start discussing work-related matters even outside of formal work hours. This increases the speed with which innovations spread across various countries and regions.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. SFO’s facility, the 3,146-seat War Memorial Opera House, was funded by a voter-approved municipal bond in 1927.