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Getting From Idea To Execution: 5 Lessons From a Kickstarter Video

Terry Starbucker

And, like any leap into the entrepreneurial unknown, we’ve already learned some valuable lessons in getting from idea to execution. After all, we were filming a video – how cool it that? And, I was in great company the whole time, with my partners and my film crew, doing something that we knew was bigger than ourselves.

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It’s Time to View Leadership as a Profession

Great Leadership By Dan

reprinted with permission from DDI's Directions newsletter): Leadership is a craft. documentary film Jiro Dreams of Sushi tells the story of an 85-year-old. you watch this film yourself (it’s now available on DVD). As you will see in this film, Jiro is a professional in. theatrical film about him. Wellins, Ph.D.

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Here’s a Leadership Hack for 2017: Start finding ways to Invert Control

Great Leadership By Dan

Other times it involves imbedding structural elements into your overall management and leadership system, but in both cases it works. Here’s an example from my place of work; the film set. In film production we also invert control by breaking difficult tasks down into incremental component pieces. Often instantly.

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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. These captains of their own destiny share the perspectve that competition is not a significant factor in the execution of their business plan – they’re in control and competition is irrelevant.

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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. Kodak leadership missed a number of innovative opportunities in the past. Kodak Focus on Film. One of those lost opportunities.

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Trust in Business Leadership

Coaching Tip

The Trusted Executive: Nine Leadership Habits That Inspire Results, Relationships and Reputation” helps leaders develop a strategy for building organizational trust. As late as 1976, Kodak accounted for 90% of film sales and 85% of camera sales in the United States. Can't Get Enough Leadership. Ask the Coach . . .

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Leadership Strategies: Are You a Davos Woman?

Women on Business

First some facts: Did you know that fewer than 3 percent of the Fortune Global 500 chief executives are women ? One quick note, at our past WELL programs we have used clips from the film “Mona Lisa’s Smile” to get deeper discussions going. Leadership Strategies and a New Verbal Diet This time of year you can count on tons (pardon.