Top Leadership Movies
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by admin in Leadership, Miscellaneous
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth
Top leadership movies…you may be thinking “can anything about leadership actually be learned by watching movies?” You bet. I was recently asked for my opinion about which movies I felt were the top leadership movies of all time. After thinking about my answer for a few minutes, I realized that while not all leaders are fans of cinema, all leaders can certainly learn valuable leadership lessons by watching movies with a critical and discerning eye…In the text that follows I’ve put a list together of more than 40 outstanding leadership movies. While most of them have not won an Academy Award, they all contain valuable lessons for leaders.
As business people nothing is more valuable than the quality of your relationships. Whether you realize it or not, your success in business (and in life in general) will largely be dependant upon your ability to not only establish key relationships, but in your ability to leverage, influence, and add value to your relationships. We have all known professionals that have been smarter, more affable, better looking, possess a better CV, or are more talented than their peers, yet they never seem to rise to the top. These professionals that seem to have the whole package yet fail to reach the brass ring have yet to understand the power of relationships. Even more regrettable is the person who has the Rolodex to die for, but who doesn’t do anything with it. In the text that follows I’ll discuss how to build a powerful sphere of influence.
One of great challenges for any business is to learn to efficiently and cost effectively leverage knowledge on an enterprise wide basis. We have all heard the saying that “knowledge is power” we’ve all also heard the refinement of that saying which states that “the application of knowledge is power”. I prefer to take it one step further and say that “the successful application of knowledge at the right time, for the right reasons, and with the proper emphasis results in a certainty of execution that creates power.” In today’s post I’ll provide you with some insights that will help you to not only leverage knowledge to increase returns, but also how to protect knowledge to mitigate risk.
How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are. The truth is that great companies are those which can thrive and prosper with dumb money and dumb people. As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. In today’s post I’ll share why I believe dumb is the new smart…
Ghostwriting…should you or shouldn’t you? Keep in mind that there have always been very passionate opinions on both sides of the ghostwriting debate. However I believe that the meteoric growth of social media not only seems to be fueling a very rapid proliferation of this dialogue, but it also seems to be causing both sides to become more entrenched in their positions. As a backdrop for the text that follows, it is important to understand that we are living in a time where the masses now have a very public voice…everyone is now an author, pundit, commentator, etc., and it is because of this that the masses now have a very vested interest in the ghostwriting discussion. In today’s post I’ll examine the both sides of the ghostwriting debate…
Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way. You will face physical, mental, financial, relational, and resource challenges among others. Instead of beating yourself up or giving in, it is critical that you develop the ability to learn from setbacks. In today’s post I will take a brief look at the beliefs that cause some to succeed where most fail. In a nutshell, dealing with barriers, obstacles, and setbacks is much more about attitude than aptitude. So my question is this; Do you have the attitude to thrive under pressure and to succeed, or will you implode when faced with a challenge?
Readers familiar with this blog know that I’m not normally prone to authoring “top 10 lists.” That being said, I have for years now consistently received inquiries from CEOs who wonder why their web initiatives are falling short of reaching their objectives. Because most of these inquiries come from executives suffering from web maladies of a similar nature, I have allowed myself to succumb to the pressure, and put together a list of what I consider to be the top 15 website mistakes (I couldn’t bear the thought of another top 10 list). The sad part about the following list is that none of these typical mistakes are difficult to remedy, yet most offenders simply fail to correct the issues and wonder why their Internet presence isn’t producing the desired results… 