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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. As a result, they will value and seek out different work experiences and will certainly usher in widespread and significant change.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org are taking a look back at the most popular blog posts of the year to find out what most preoccupied you, our readers. We can't resist including another 11 posts, a hard-to-agree-upon sampling of the ideas we were proudest to publish and discussions we most enjoyed hosting this year.

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Managing Risks Means Managing Arguments

Harvard Business Review

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. That discord in 2010 and 2011 contributed to the chief investment office's losing trades in 2012, the current and former bankers said. So it was Lyme disease that did it! You want diverse, even opposing viewpoints.

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12 Reads for 2012

LDRLB

In that spirit, we’ve compiled 12 books we feel every leader or aspiring leader should commit to read, or re-read in 2012. A fantastic case for a better management perspective, mainly that little things like progress can affect big things like profitability. Perhaps the most under-rated book on evidence-based management.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

The development process continues and we introduce the “Amalgatome” in the middle of 2011 to a narrow market of fifteen primary processors with an annual sales potential of $2.76 Million; not big, but interesting. Undeterred, we issue our Letter of Intent to the State; one of hundreds.

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How Bayer Increased Diversity on Its Senior Team

Harvard Business Review

Since 2011, I have been working with him to further globalize BAYER’s management. ” Bayer’s capability of being in tune with its global markets was not optimized back in 2011. We resisted the short-term approach of hiring female talent from other companies, a decision that has gone over well internally.

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Four Secrets to Selling More

Harvard Business Review

We've worked hard from the beginning to avoid hiring Lone Wolves — the all-star players who resist bringing in a second team member to help complete a deal. The dog-eat-dog sales management strategies of times past will not work in a down economy. They're too determined to win or lose the entire commission on their own.