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The Best Leaders “Talk the Walk”

Harvard Business Review

But the more time I spend with game-changing innovators and high-performing companies, the more I appreciate the need for leaders to “talk the walk” — that is, to be able to explain, in language that is unique to their field and compelling to their colleagues and customers, why what they do matters and how they expect to win.

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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. This is the title of the first day of the 28-day training program in the back of The Little Black Book of Innovation. The challenge — what I call "The Innovator's Paradox" — is when you have the freedom to change, you don't feel the urgency.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. It sold the site to Shutterfly as part of its bankruptcy plan for less than $25 million in April 2012. People went from printing pictures to sharing them online.