Monthly Archives: October 2015

Rather Than Copying a Leadership Style, Create One

Employees in class

Creatives know that copying someone else’s work is uncool. It may also be illegal, but to a true Creative that is far less important than the lack of ethics displayed by a copycat. When it comes to leaders, you should not copy either, but for different reasons. When you take business classes, when you read […]

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Freeloaders

Every now and then you will have employees who try to make a name for themselves by attaching themselves to every project in sight, but without really doing any work. Do not encourage this. Their plan is simple: they want to get their name out in front of their bosses as much as possible so […]

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Look for Inspiration in Unlikely Places

Your employees are more likely to be creative, energetic and innovative when they have some sort of inspiration. Maybe something to get them into the right frame of mind, maybe something to spark some specific ideas about visuals or textures or sound, inspiration can be a starting point, or a nudge in a particular direction. […]

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Down for the Day

Today is a public holiday in Thailand, and even though the Designing Leaders crew operates across multiple countries where it ISN’T a holiday, we are taking this one. See you Monday!!

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1.21 Gigawatts? Great Scott!!

Online learning

So, we are just going to ask the question that everyone on Facebook is asking today: where is my floating car? Today is the day that Marty McFly is supposed to appear in a time machine, powered by 1.21 gigawatts running through a flux capacitor, and we still do not have hoverboards and floating cars […]

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