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Why Leadership should be a Core Discipline of Every Creative Firm - Part 1
Why Leadership should be a Core Discipline of Every Creative Firm - Part 1

Have you ever experienced a time when your team felt cohesive and strong and you were producing incredible work? Have you ever experienced a time when you felt like your ideas weren’t being considered, there was conflict, and your creative output suffered?

Whether you work in a global agency or a small independent studio, whether you write code, pitch new business, design, develop strategy, or manage projects - you are constantly negotiating your time, your attention, and your ideas - all with the purpose of delivering value to your client.

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Caleb Deanleadership, creativity, creative, business, management, agency, advertising, studio, brain, neuron, synapse, discipline, practice Comment
How I came to work in leadership development and why I love what I do

People often ask me how I got into this work, here's how (and why I love it).

I've worked on many different kinds of projects throughout my career. Real estate, start-up business ventures, economic development initiatives, rural community building, collaborative story-telling... meaningful projects that I believed to be viable, and knew that if successful, would help to make the world a better place

Though so much time, energy and money was invested in these projects, many broke down, fell apart, or failed to launch.

 

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Caleb Deanleadership, organizational development, systems thinking, design thinking, design, organizations, business, Owl, #owlfoxdean, growth Comment