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Leadership

Short films on how leaders change, and what holds them back.

Personal interpretations of published research. Not Korn Ferry material.

Raising Ada: Ada's assessment report beside Max's own, red lines joining where their tendencies meet

Raising Ada

Max uses his AI like a vending machine. Then he has her assessed, the way you would assess a person: four stations, one report. And then he reads his own. A short story about working with AI: know its tendencies, and your own.

4 min 01 · English · subtitles

Simple Rules: a grid of forty-three pilot requests, four of them in red, and five characters standing side by side

Simple Rules for a Complex World

Diane’s company has forty-three requests for AI pilots and room for four. A drawn reading of Donald Sull and Kathleen Eisenhardt, in a deliberately flat voice: find the one decision that holds you back, and let the people who make it write a few simple rules.

6 min 11 · English · subtitles · music

Becoming an Enterprise Leader: Jo stands on a hill with a red lantern, beside the whole company outlined in red

Becoming an Enterprise Leader

Jo leads a strong unit. To lead the whole company, she walks past six obstacles: the pedestal, the gap, the fog, the tightrope, the rock and the gate. A wordless drawn film after Douglas A. Ready.

1 min 40 · no words · English cards

Design in Five Moves: five numbered steps, each with its reason

Design in Five Moves

A team does not design something new with a flash of genius, but with a process centred on people. Five moves, each with its reason: immerse, diverge, select, prototype, iterate.

1 min 58 · English · subtitles

Leading at the Enterprise Level: Jo thinks about the whole company, in a thought bubble

Leading at the Enterprise Level

Many companies grow excellent leaders of the parts, and few leaders of the whole. An illustrated reading of Douglas A. Ready's article: the four tasks of the enterprise leader, what holds them back, and what helps.

2 min 49 · English · subtitles

Testing Hidden Assumptions: Clara standing on a large black rock, a flag beside her

Testing Hidden Assumptions

Clara knows what she needs to change, and can't. An illustrated reading of Immunity to Change, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey: the hidden belief that holds us back, and the small experiment that tests it.

3 min 14 · English · subtitles