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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. The largest, best-educated generation in history has become an under-utilized resource, vastly unprepared to move into positions of responsibility and leadership.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

“Organization,” as we’re using it here, includes all of the required capabilities, resources (including human), and management systems necessary to implement your strategy. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. Goodwin was notoriously combative, with a “Fred says” autocratic management style.

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The UK’s Snap Election Reminds Us That Proposing a Change Forces People to Ask New Questions About You

Harvard Business Review

Similar but much more extreme comeuppances happened in 1990, to former Ontario premier David Peterson, and in 2015, to former Alberta premier Jim Prentice, when they called snap elections to firm up and entrench their majorities. This happens in business over and over. ” The problem wasn’t that they didn’t like pharma.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2015 that you might have missed: Validate your beliefs by @scedmonds. Leadership Beliefs: Are Yours Helping You Lead? The Economist Films - The World in 2016. I in Leadership by Nigel Nicholson via @LBS. Renewable Leadership by @StrategicMonk. by @KateNasser.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

On March 2, 2015, a line of people stretching around the block waited to get into the Rickshaw Stop on Fell Street in San Francisco. Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers. He had been director of product management at Dell Computer before coming to Stanford.

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Managing Creativity: Lessons from Pixar and Disney Animation

Harvard Business Review

Ed Catmull is a co-founder and the longtime head of Pixar Animation Studios, which struggled for 10 years from its founding in 1986 until the runaway success in 1995 of its first feature film, Toy Story. There was some unhappy news about one of your films in production. We have had a substantial difficulty with every film that we made.