Today I read a financial article about Netflix. While it’s interesting, one statement in it, as an aside, caught my eye: the year that Netflix started working on original programming. The original model for Netflix was them functioning as a distributor. They helped customers get access to movies that others had made. But at some …
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It’s a well known fact that magazines use Photoshop to touch up the photos of people to make them look more like they want them to. I’m not saying it’s right. I’m just saying it is what happens. The most recent situation with Vanity Fair was a set of photos that gave Reese Witherspoon three …
Vanity Fair Photoshop Mistakes – will leaders fall into the same trap? CONTINUE READING
I don’t know if there’s a magic number for the books and articles you should read each year. I don’t know if people who read more are liked more. Or if they get more done. There’s a lot I don’t know about reading. But I know one thing – people who read a lot are …
I’m sitting here working on a proposal for a friend. Why? It’s not making me money. I don’t owe this friend a favor. It’s late and I’ve already worked all day. But here’s why. Every single thing I’ve learned – about leadership, team management, or technology – has come from someone else sharing their time …
How you define a leader will change your expectations of a leader. It will also change how you think about your own leadership.
The other day I said that leaders need to make sure their staff never stop learning. But the reality is that it goes further than that. Leaders need to be teachers. I know you know this already but it is worth repeating. You’ll never know something as well as when you have to teach it …
I heard a story last year about two groups of students in a photography course. One group was taught every lesson and asked to apply it to a single photo that would be their only deliverable. The other group was taught every lesson but had to turn in several images every week. As the course …
In a recent article, I read this line: One survey revealed that “39% of jobs in the legal sector could be automated in the next 10 years. What that says to me isn’t that machine learning and artificial intelligence, along with robots, will replace knowledge workers. What it says to me is that there are …
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Not every idea you hear is worth pursuing. Not every proposal is worth pushing thru. But there’s a huge difference between rejected a bad idea and rejecting a person. And it’s important to distinguish between the two. When we reject an idea, we should be able to articulate where it fails. We should be able …
Leaders reject pitches & proposals but not people CONTINUE READING
Anyone can have direct reports. That doesn’t make them a leader. But not everyone has followers. At the heart of the issue is how people think about authority and how the deal with trust. Earned Authority / Trust – Most of what we see in organizations, especially in the US, is an earned authority dynamic. …
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