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Culture & Performance

5 Communication Lessons Learned from the Oscars

Warren Beatty stepped on a communications land mine when presenting the Oscar for Best Picture in 2017. The Oscar ceremony always goes longer than you think it will, and the thing that keeps everyone there until the bitter end is finding out the big reveal of which film takes away the big prize. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had the honour of presenting best film, and it went terribly wrong.

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Culture & Performance

Top 10 Leadership Nuggets from The Art of Leadership

Leadership is a topic on the minds of most organizations – corporate, public sector, non-profit, entrepreneurial. The volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity that characterize the world we live in even has its own acronym now to provide a shorthand way of talking about it. How do you lead and succeed in a VUCA world?

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Change & Complexity

Accelerate Results by Working Visually

Quick video that outlines very briefly how working visually can help you really get everyone on the same page and help you get more cohesion and better impact, greater execution and bottom line results. Watch this video to learn how to accelerate your results when you work visually…

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Culture & Performance

Your Core Values:
3 Lessons Learned from Zappos

It’s quite expected for large companies to have mission statements, values, or promises developed because they really do lay the foundation for a healthy, thriving corporate culture and brand.

With core values like “Deliver WOW through service,” “Create Fun and a Little Weirdness,” and “Be Humble” it’s clear this is no ordinary place. Visiting their headquarters in Las Vegas, which is sparking a rejuvenation in development of the downtown core, it was clear from the life-size stuffed llamas in the HR department, and the friendly, engaging attitude from every Zapponian we met, this is a workplace like no other I’ve seen.

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Focus & Execution

Why Doodle?

Are you still wondering why anyone might want to doodle? I get the “why doodle” question a lot, frankly. The “but I can’t draw” conclusion usually follows right after that (but that’s not even true – you actually don’t know how to draw in order to make visual notes. I’m proof of that!).

There’s a lot of power in doodling. When folks see me doing it in real time, it’s amazing how quickly they start to answer that question for themselves.

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You haven’t lost your edge. But have you lost your altitude?

5 minutes. 7 questions. Find out where you are and where you need to be leading from.

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