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Casino: Leadership Style

Flick: Blueberries! from Casino

This is clip provokes a conversation about leadership style. Do you feel you have to do it all yourself or it won’t get done? When do you collaborate? When do you ask too much of people? When does what you ask for seem unimportant to the work at hand?

Click: “I’m watching all the details all the time.”

Flip: Details to Big Picture, Big Picture to details – engineers think details to big picture, entrepreneurs think big picture to details

Article: Grampy - Elliot Washor's Afterword to The Big Picture: Education is Everyone's Business by Dennis Littky

Article on Dennis that tackles in more complex ways how we behave as leaders. Bring in parts of the article that signal to you the type of leader that you are.

Activity: Pair Up Activity: Ask one another - How do you lead? Discuss what type of leader are you? Hands on? Hands off? Do you like DeNiro’s style why or why not?