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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Rob Bell’s The Heretic

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article The Heretic is an original documentary about the former pastor of Mars Hill, Rob Bell. Watching Rob Bell, Pete Holmes, Kristen Bell, Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame), and others share their thoughts on faith and Bell’s journey was interesting. The story presented in The Heretic is interesting.

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Finding Purpose

CO2

Which ones are genuinely your own, and which are others’ projections and expectations that you accepted as your own? ” - Daniel Gilbert. The post Finding Purpose appeared first on Elements of Leadership. Just where do your beliefs start and others’ stop? Go into your zen place and search deeply.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". .* Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here. This is hard stuff.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” After three years of work, the project was abandoned after missing several milestones.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

But you know, my leadership team is smart. The company's core control mechanisms — the means by which it decides how to allocate resources, start and stop projects, and so on — were organized to do one thing: minimize mistakes. "That's just what my life is like. And they've been hugely successful.