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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. The scene is famous for the way it terrified audiences without ever showing the titular shark.

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Want To Be The Best? Study Pixar. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

Most of their films take three years to make. They look at the whole movie – not just the story, or the characters, or the voices, or the technology – they make it all work. I am creating a Leadership Development class for Japanese students of business English. They’ve never missed. All the time.

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Innovation at Bell Labs

Leading Blog

Bill Gates once remarked, “ My first stop on any time-travel expedition would be Bell Labs in December 1947 ,” That was the year Bell Labs invented the transistor—a tiny invention that makes possible the technology we have today. A great way to spend an hour in science class.)

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Business Leadership Expertise: Give a Gift of Honoring :: Women on.

Women on Business

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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Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

Harvard Business Review

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. Scientific competencies also play an important role.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

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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Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly.

Strategy Driven

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!” Some are just 140 characters long.

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