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How Leaders Become Strategists

Skip Prichard

and “What constraint are we imposing that can be removed?”. The big opportunity lay in making Marvel characters into feature films. One problem was classic chicken-and-egg: Studio licensing offers were low because there had not yet been a successful major film based on Marvel characters. Image Credit: Hu Chen.

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Leading a “Mozart”

Lead Change Blog

It is about providing leadership to all those passion-driven over achievers who end up as the “Mozart” in organizations. What would your leadership style be like if you supervised film director James Cameron, Steve Jobs, runner Usain Bolt, Lady Gaga, activist Susan B. But this piece is not about the Mozart.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

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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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

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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Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less

Leading Blog

Our creativity is sparked by constraints. Filmmaker Robert Rodrigues comments: The creative person with limitless imagination and no money can make a better film than the talentless mogul with the limitless checkbook every time.

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Morning Advantage: What Would You Do With a Blank Check?

Harvard Business Review

That’s what Kraft’s leadership team had in mind when it set out to breathe new life into Tang. Using films to make people sad in the lab gets round all kinds of ethical constraints, since people willingly pay money to see tearjerkers and walk out of the theater with no apparent ill effects.

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Kill Your Business Model Before It Kills You

Harvard Business Review

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years.