Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Innovators think and do things differently in order to achieve extraordinary success. They are found not just in the world of business, although they do have strong leadership qualities and excellent business sense as a common core. Regardless of where they start, innovators persist till they successfully change the game.

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Innovation Sports Real Estate Advertising 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

Film 10

Film Mentor Education Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Being in the right place at the right time can make or break careers and companies. A classic old film comedy, Being There , stars the late Peter Sellers as dimwitted Chance the Gardener, who tended the grounds for a wealthy elderly gentleman. It's hard to catch the opportunities without being there.

Succession 11

Succession Film Technology Globalization 11

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The question people ask is: What are the careers with the highest satisfaction? In this post we’ll explore some of the most satisfying jobs, what is the most satisfying aspect of your job or business and why they make for such fulfilling careers. . And find your perfect career fit! The Most Satisfying Jobs . Well, read on!

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Engineering Storytelling Career Education 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The wise employee has the building of knowledge a part of their career path… sharing with others what we most recently and most effectively learn. This resurgence in photography comes after a conversion of the industry from film to digital. Managers and employees with the most to lose are most fearful of change.

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Strategy Budgeting Audience Risk Management 97

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Women in the LEAD

MARCH 7, 2010

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? Here is my experience: I was working for IBM for 30 years and retired in 2007 the reason I retired is because I needed to change my career.

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Welch Katz Globalization Conference 45

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. But even artists have to eat, and the fuel of commerce and industry is innovation and novelty. I’m glad I did. Let’s trade. Will work for food!”

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Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Leading Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Rethink, adapt, and push-on describes his career path. By 26 he had set a life goal: To make the first computer-animated feature film. Creativity & Innovation' Ed Catmull’s Book, Creativity, Inc. is about how to lead when you care about and believe in the people you lead. Eventually, that lead him to computer graphics.

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Creativity Storytelling Film Self-aware 281

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

What the film doesn’t mention is that so do a vast swath of men , at least those that didn’t die in the mud of WWI without ever having voted. The (mostly male) leadership teams I work with are working to adapt their businesses to the times. Boomer women, who have seen the issue play out over their careers, are joining them.

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Conference Film Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers. The project opened the eyes of Opera personnel to the power of experimentation, spurring “a new commitment to innovative thinking and creative brainstorming” as Shilvock put it.

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Audience Brainstorming Project Class 8

Women's Leadership Exchange

JANUARY 2, 2006

Thank you to Beth Polish, a business leader and innovator, for bringing to my attention a news item (NY Times) on New Year's Eve about the passing of author Rona Jaffe. I could hardly wait to be a teenager after seeing that film. Parks in a previous blog entry and we honored her at a past Women's Leadership Exchange conference.

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RONA Film Fashion Delegation 70