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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. I also believe companies didn’t learn much from Kodak’s example.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Ready Player One

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article Steven Spielberg brings Ernest Cline’s award-winning novel Ready Player One to the big screen. Any time a director tries to translate a New York Bestseller to film, they face an uphill battle. Released in 2012, Ready Player One tells the story of teenager Wade Watts. What Is Ready Player One?

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Remembering a Leader in Green Energy

Coaching Tip

Stanford Ovshinsky 1922-2012. Companies around the world license his patents. "It The company was a world leader in the technology but recently declared bankruptcy amid down times in the U.S. Mr. Ovshinsky used his discovery to fund a publicly traded research laboratory that teamed up with companies such as 3M Co.,

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Say It 7 Times

CO2

“My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat–or in film’s case ‘run on’–manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.” When I was president of my company, I found the need to repeat myself exasperating. by Gary Cohen. ” - Andy Warhol.

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Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

Strategy Driven

And I am not just talking to companies – I am talking to YOU – the individual. CONSIDER THIS: Of all the grassroots revolutions that have occurred on social media, none of them were started by companies or a governments. Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence.

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Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, I am a marketing and sales rep for a company that sells emergency cleanup services. Jeffrey, My company helps small B2B businesses plan a video strategy and develop web series and webinars to tighten their bond with their customers. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Best Regards, Jeffrey. All rights reserved.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. Three of the company's directors quit near the end of last year, and word recently emerged that the company was on the brink of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Like many easy narratives, this one is not quite right. It's the business model, stupid.

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