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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. Skills With technology, knowledge is quickly outdated and accessible to all in real-time.

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 85 women were promoted. . Computer and information systems managers. Human Resource Managers.

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Nigeria’s GDP Just Doubled on Paper: What It Means in Practice

Harvard Business Review

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested.

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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. Although they developed digital photographic technology, too many people in the company focused on the core organizational competence of film.

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Morning Advantage: Putting an End to Corruption

Harvard Business Review

And by 2015, this Foreign Affairs article predicts, the total value of goods lost to counterfeiting and piracy will balloon from 2008's $650 billion to $1.77 You can see what happened in this 10-minute film that eloquently chronicles the human side of globalization. In 2010, the U.N. estimates, some $1.5 WHAT GOES AROUND.

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most and Least Resilient Economies

Harvard Business Review

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher. Smaller, less-attractive markets should be consolidated into clusters to cut costs and resources.

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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.