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How to Make an Even Better Career Elevator Pitch

Let's Grow Leaders

Use this Simple Technique for a Better Career Elevator Pitch. Do you ever think of exactly the right thing to say — your perfect career elevator pitch — the moment you walk away from the conversation? This moment in my career helped launch me into the next level of leadership at the company I worked for.

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The Art of Following Up for Executives

N2Growth Blog

It’s your tagline and title for the film you want your audience to buy a ticket for. Maybe you met another member of the executive team in the lobby (who may have some bearing/informal influence on the hiring decision), and you certainly met and communicated with other team members along the way/in passing.

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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

But this wasn’t the film itself. It was a documentary on the making of the movie, all about the lengths that then 27-year-old wunderkind Steven Spielberg and his crew went to in creating a film that would define the summer blockbuster. If innovation is really about execution, then execution itself is really about problem-solving.

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Sharing My Dream to Help You Achieve Yours

Next Level Blog

I got started in this work because in my own career as a corporate executive I regularly found myself in high stakes situations where I really had no clue what to do or how to be. Doing that work led, in 2006, to my book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success.

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Slow Decline of Eastman Kodak due to an Inability to Reinvent

Coaching Tip

The film giant gave us the "Kodak Moment," which persists as the quintessential photographic experience even though in today''s digital camera age "selfies" on smartphones are a major factor. That is why it has been so difficult to change Kodak''s corporate culture from film-based imaging to digital imaging. . Kodak Focus on Film.

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Enhance Your Communication Skills with Constructive Feedback

Strategy Driven

Early on in my career, I was consulting for a major film and music studio in Los Angeles when a woman approached me to say, “Dr. He is a creativity and executive leadership coach, as well as a licensed mind-body psychotherapist. Ron, I really love what you are teaching us, but would you like some feedback?”

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. That means with little effort, the rookies could be as knowledgeable as the executives. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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