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How Do I Deal with a Manipulative Boss?

Let's Grow Leaders

“What do I do if my boss is a “gamer” manager–the kind of manipulative boss you talk about in your book Winning Well )? AskingforaFriend ” This is a question we get quite frequently from people reading our book: Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide To Getting Results– Without Losing Your Soul.

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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. A manager who changes a command from the general “get this project done,” to the specific by assigning one particular task to each team member likely automates a better outcome.

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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: Pixar has been phenomenally successful with the likes of Toy Story , The Incredibles , Finding Nemo, and Up, to name but a few of its films.

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How Leaders Become Strategists

Skip Prichard

Starting with the challenge defuses attempts to make favorite projects and goals the center of discussion. 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.

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

Terry Starbucker

2) Get out of the way and let the talented people do their job – For leaders it’s a natural tendency to want to “meddle” in creative things (ask any Marketing Manager), and in this project it was really hard not to do that. After all, we were filming a video – how cool it that? Leadership'

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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. The Accidental infuses a project or company with authenticity. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. So how do you assemble a great team?

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Sharing My Dream to Help You Achieve Yours

Next Level Blog

I think that appeals to me so much because it defines what I’ve been doing as a leadership coach for over two decades. Dave made lasting changes over a few months and, during that same time, the critical multi-million-dollar project his team was working on went from dark red to bright green on the status dashboard.

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