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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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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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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. If we didn’t study films and scouting reports, develop plays that would exploit match-ups, and execute our game plan we would lose…it was as simple as that. that can cause disruption in the market.

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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

T he Outsider: This is person who finds novel opportunities in industries and markets you might not normally target. Athletes figure out the connections between seemingly diverse activities, building new processes and opportunities on the fly. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films.

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How to Build a Team of Innovators

Great Leadership By Dan

According to McKinsey , many CEOs struggle to identify people good at innovation -- the “intrapreneurs” within their organizations who possess the rare mix of skills, motivation and attitude to successfully bring new ideas to market. The result of their efforts was “Toy Story,” which set a new standard for animated films.

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Why Storytelling Matters In Today’s Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

With this latest piece on my leadership blog, I’m delighted to announce a new partnership with The Economist Executive Education. Something that informs those we lead not only what we want to achieve with their support and contributions, but what they will gain in the process of taking part in this endeavour.