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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Alien: Covenant

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article Alien: Covenant is a sequel to the 2012 Prometheus and a prequel to the 1979 Ridley Scott Alien film series. Alien: Covenant was worth the price of admission. Seeing the backstory of the Alien series brought to life was intriguing. Know your position as a leader isn’t forever.

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Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

It should be about how they were reluctant, about how they thought the kid next door could do it, about how they thought the price was too high, about how they thought they were ugly on film. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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How to Prepare for a Crisis You Couldn’t Possibly Predict

Harvard Business Review

On the morning of May 18, 2012, at precisely 11:05, Nasdaq planned to execute the first trade in in Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offering. The opening trade was an auction of sorts—buyers and sellers entered orders, and Nasdaq calculated a price that would cause as many shares as possible to change hands.

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Why Marketers Want to Make You Cry

Harvard Business Review

Marketers are getting increasingly sophisticated at tapping into those strong emotions, and they don’t need a full-length feature film to do it. Apple’s competitors always want to talk about pixels and price points. Chances are, the stories that stay with you also make you cry – or laugh – or get angry.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. A misunderstood story. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. digital-camera sales (No.

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Five of Steve Jobs's Biggest Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

When Jobs was the last and only buyer standing in 1986 when George Lucas had to sell off the Pixar graphics arm of LucasFilms (for $10 million), he never expected the company to ever make money on animated films. billion in 2012. Not knowing the right market for NeXT computer. No potential buyer bit.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. A century ago Leica brought to market the first lightweight camera, whose most distinctive feature was the quality of its lens, allowing small film images to be blown up without losing much resolution.