Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2012

(My first encounter with Bells Labs was like many school aged kids in the sixties, through their series of science films — Hemo the Magnificent , Our Mr. Sun , Gateways to the Mind and others. A great way to spend an hour in science class.) It was Pierce that suggested the calling the new device of 1947 a transistor.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 17, 2020

As everything started to shut down this past weekend, I spent a good bit of time on Monday scrolling through my LinkedIn and Instagram feeds to see how some of the best-known people in my field of leadership development are handling this new reality. Simon Sinek is filming short videos where he’s answering questions from readers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

This includes the German history of many small independent states (until 1918 Germany consisted of 23 monarchies and three republics), which forced entrepreneurs to internationalize early on in a company’s development if they wanted to keep growing. Countries such as France, Italy, Japan, and Korea lag far behind in these respects.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Strong yet Others are from books, films and politics. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Many of the women who shaped us were in our families, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, neighbors, and teachers.

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Women in the LEAD

MAY 4, 2012

I had seen her in a classic film by Warren Bennis called THE LEADER WITHIN. What I remember about seeing her in this film in one of my early Management Development classes at IBM was that she was so human in her way of engaging people and interacting. We were just making our way.

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Women in the LEAD

MAY 4, 2012

I had seen her in a classic film by Warren Bennis called THE LEADER WITHIN. What I remember about seeing her in this film in one of my early Management Development classes at IBM was that she was so human in her way of engaging people and interacting. We were just making our way.

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Film Webinar Globalization Download 40

Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Reid travelled around the world twice – once on his publisher’s dime and again to film a documentary for PBS – to learn about how health care is delivered in different countries. While that may work okay in one's philosophy class (not really), it completely falls apart as a basis for shared community life (government, ethics, etc).

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Chris Brady

MAY 27, 2010

They mistake deeds for development, actions for intent, and works for heart. Dave from the other Florida coast near where I dream of Jeanie was filmed. Beware the sufferers of IDS. Such people are among the most self-deceived of our species. They think that by doing the right things they are becoming the right person.

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Mentor Seminar Letter Blog 124

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Large cities like New York and Los Angeles, as well as leading tech and knowledge hubs like Seattle and San Francisco, have experienced gentrification, economic segregation, and a disappearing middle class. One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. We think cities can do better.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

After several high school and college courses, a few classes at Berlitz, and numerous trips to France and Italy, I have developed enough facility in their languages to get by in their restaurants, hotels, and shops, but not nearly enough to have full conversations. That is where we come full circle to the lesson from foreign films.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

She had launched her career 12 years earlier with no connections — she just picked up a camera and started making small-budget films, including one she financed out of her own savings account. She achieved a big breakthrough with Selma , the first film directed by an African American woman to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

"   All we know about himis what was shown through the camera lenses of reporters on the scene, who hadto smuggle their film out of the country before what happened could be seen bythe outside world.   There is not even anyinformation about the most famous man of the incident, the "TankMan."

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 22, 2011

For instance, as individual contributors, we often develop relationships with our co-workers, many of whom may actually become our friends. The movie is called Glory , a wonderful, often heart wrenching, sometimes graphic film. Among them is a change in how the leader relates to those who report to him or her. Here’s a clip.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While I think I’ve come a long way on that journey, I never fully understood what it takes to be a world-class communicator until I read Nancy Duarte’s Resonate. The same is true for any camera crews who might be filming your presentation. Thanks, Nancy!” Doing so ensures that the press will pick up the right sound bites.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

" (this film has not yet been rated) Posted by: Rick Meyer | November 20, 2010 at 10:28 PM Incredibaby was stunned: He'd hoped "floating formula" would work, but the invisibility was a BONUS! Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free book!) Posted by: mark humphrey | November 20, 2010 at 09:28 PM "Look Honey, no hands."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It's an Italian film about a man's effort to protect his son from the horrors of the Holocaust. Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free book!) | Main | Reading for Lifetime Growth » November 30, 2010 The Pursuit of Happiness "Don't make that face! Nick Posted by: Nick | November 30, 2010 at 04:23 PM Great post Chris!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Take charge of your own development. About 15 years ago, I set up a small real estate development company to transform 30 acres of undeveloped land into a small subdivision. Her cockades are regularly worn by historical reenactors and have been used in historical films. You and Your Team. Improving Yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Remember the scene in the first Austin Powers film where Powers, attempting to escape in a steamroller, warns one of Dr. Evil''s henchman to move out of its path? A large pharmaceutical firm, for example, was about to make a big bet on a new class of drugs. Develop scenarios of how the world might look five or ten years from now.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

But for women in the workplace—especially those in low-income developing countries—it can be harder to find other successful women to learn from and collaborate with, since social norms often restrict their mobility and opportunities to interact with one another. vegetable vendors, tailors, etc.) embroidery, rolling bidis, etc.).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

For example, despite subdued consumer demand, new clothing retailers are moving into South Africa to tap the country’s underserved middle class. Companies that want to benefit from the positive development path of some markets will have to adjust their strategies accordingly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

and other developed markets? In theory, this might sound like an ideal relationship: the American partner possesses technical know-how or a world-class brand while the Chinese partner brings capital and new market access. American multinational firms are accustomed to selling to Chinese customers within China.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Finding an all-encompassing definition of a robot is actually a difficult problem, even for world-class roboticists. For Westerners at least, our working cultural definition owes a lot to robots in stories and film, as well as real-life robots past and present. And yet many of us think we know a robot when we see one. How is this so?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“It’s a genre that Americans associated with class and with prosperity, so that sort of aesthetic gave it its emotional hook” with big companies, Murphy said. Though Mary Kay slowly developed its own quasi-religious conferences , complete with songs, by the 1980s.). which debuted on Broadway in 1943.

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Chris Brady

OCTOBER 25, 2010

While I am very much against regimes, violent, or unfair cartels, you're right. Alot of people have an idealist fantasy that we should all be Marxists, even thought they've never lived it before.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 18, 2009

So, I didn’t set out to write a post based on The Princess Bride; instead, a post was revealed by watching the film. I headed to the airport, upgraded to first class so I could write, and told the attendant to keep the wine coming. Right then, I saw an angle for another grammar post, this time focused on misused words.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And, like many of the 84 businesses we also studied, they find great things to do and then share them with the world through books, articles and films. For example, Apple and Microsoft developed lessons, guides, and apps to help kids write and use computer code and the BBC holds an annual writing competition for 5–13 year olds.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. Business writing and public speaking classes should be mandatory. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’ World Class. Running the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

To survive and thrive with the conflicting demands of performance excellence and constrained resources, SFO has developed a highly structured organization. Zena and Madhav challenged them to put on the event in just two weeks, by the end of the class, which was far sooner than the SFO staff thought possible. The audience loved it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In 2010, I wrote an HBR article predicting increased interest in supply-chain transparency: firms needed to develop strategies for knowing and explaining where stuff comes from. A generation of cynical middle-class customers have already decided that McDonald’s is a tarnished brand.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

This has become a real issue, as evidenced by the $150 million class action law suit that Spotify is currently wrestling with. Where would this new music ecosystem “live”? One idea is.music , the soon-to-be-introduced and much-anticipated new generic top-level domain (gTLD).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Researchers filmed these simulations and had objective judges evaluate them. Microsoft’s popular “Precision Questioning” class teaches participants to question their own ideas; develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism; and act with emotional agility even in tense situations. Kevin Kniffin.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

In response to questions like these, I developed the Spectrum of Sexual Misconduct at Work (SSMW) to help people define and differentiate among types of gender-based offense. My goal in developing the SSMW was not to create a cut-and-dried, one-size-fits- all, static set of categories. When are resignation and firing appropriate?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

There can also be large variation from one semester to another in what cases are used to teach any given class. The famous Bechdel Test “measures” how women are depicted in a movie on the basis of three criteria: Does the film have at least two women. Token women. who speak to each other. about something other than a man?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

LaunchCode has worked with 5,000 students in recent years, and placed 1,000 of them into tech-sector apprenticeships or as direct hires earning more than $50,000 a year as front-end, back-end, full-stack, or mobile developers. Of those hires, 50% were previously unemployed and 37% are people of color.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

It was a master class watching President Lincoln get the Congress to approve the 13th Amendment [ending slavery]. Or to take the example from which Spielberg’s film on Lincoln is drawn, the passage of the 13 th amendment permanently outlawing slavery. It was principled, and it was strategic.

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