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Why Do You Do What You Do?

Claris Consulting

Why does Jeff Bezos start his senior leadership team meetings in silence? Why does Tom Brady spend voluminous hours studying film of his opponents? Jeff Bezos starts his meetings in silence to create an environment that fosters laser focus and critical thinking. Why does Taylor Swift still take voice lessons?

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Accountability + Psychological Safety = High Performance

Nash Consulting

Continuous Learning : An environment of continuous learning and development is fostered, with team members feeling safe to express gaps in knowledge and their need for help. For a prime example of this zone, watch the film Office Space.) As a result, both the performance of the team and the well-being of individuals suffer.

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Learning without training – Books

The Management Centre

There are thousands of management and leadership books, on all kinds of topics. And How to Fix It) Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (2019) Harvard Business Review Press: This book explores leadership and gender; and the behaviours that are considered to be worthy in leadership roles. These are seen as masculine behaviours.

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When Charismatic Leadership Goes Too Far

Harvard Business

Many work hard to develop charismatic skills. Leadership is changing — fast. But true charismatic leadership is more than just a set of techniques to excite followers. Often, followers admire a charismatic leader enough to actively try to develop some of the leader’s distinctive qualities in themselves.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. Meet Gallup Press – yet another branch of an already rapidly growing information empire.

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4 Ways Women Can Break Barriers by Breaking the Rules

Harvard Business

She had launched her career 12 years earlier with no connections — she just picked up a camera and started making small-budget films, including one she financed out of her own savings account. She achieved a big breakthrough with Selma , the first film directed by an African American woman to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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