Archive for December, 2007

Are You A Manager Or A LEADER?

Monday, December 31st, 2007

We often speak of “leadership potential” as something that some have and others don’t. The truth is that each one of us not only has leadership potential, but is in fact “leading” every day - more or less successfully - whether we know it or not.

Take a look at the following list, and see how you could be living up to your true leadership potential. With all due respect to the many fine managers out there, the term “manager” here is not meant as a job description, but rather as a mindset.

Are you simply “managing”, or are you LEADING?

A “manager”…
A LEADER…
  • controls
  • delegates
  • dispenses data
  • self-assesses
  • reacts
  • is emotionally disconnected
  • uses left-brain analysis
  • focuses on problems
  • reaps rewards
  • encourages
  • collaborates
  • shares information
  • utilizes feedback
  • responds
  • is emotionally intelligent
  • uses whole-brain thinking
  • addresses opportunities
  • shares rewards

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China Explores Its Options

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Back to the blog after the better part of a month in China, where I had the pleasure of unveiling my new presentation “CG Production Principles and Practices: Keeping Your Money On The Screen And Off The Floor”.

The trip went very well, although I wound up on the business end of an IV drip the day before flying home. Read all about it in the Animation Options press release.

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