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Finding the Healthy Tension Between Being Confident and Collaborative

Harvard Business Review

Over the course of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with people doing extraordinary things: inventors, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, and even a Buddhist master. Long before a computer-animated feature film was technically possible, Catmull and Lasseter were determined to make one. Even top executives were excluded.

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Getting Culture Right

You're Not the Boss of Me

While it is a clever film, it highlights very disturbing things that go on in some organizations. And, over the course of my career, I have also occasionally done some of these things as well. Do they tell stories about overcoming obstacles or being crushed by the bureaucracy? I have seen them. The first is a practice.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings. Products and services assist the bureaucracy to do its job more efficiently but cannot claim credit for Big Picture success of a client’s entire industry. Greatness is earned over an entire career. Rolex Watches.

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