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Management Innovations Only Work When No One Else Is Doing Them

The Horizons Tracker

The analytics-driven tactics used by Oakland Athletics’ manager Billy Beane not only inspired the best-selling book and film Moneyball, but also a wave of imitators seeking to tap into the secret sauce that allowed Beane to over-achieve with the unfancied baseball team he was in charge of.

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The Kony 2012 "Controversy"

Harvard Business Review

Founded by three college students in 2003, Invisible Children is a human rights organization. Instead of a film, they ended up creating a massive movement to save children from abduction into Kony's rebel army. Spending too much money on film and media. It's a film and media organization for Christ's sake.

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Four Suggestions as You Face Your Industry's Steamroller

Harvard Business Review

Remember the scene in the first Austin Powers film where Powers, attempting to escape in a steamroller, warns one of Dr. Evil''s henchman to move out of its path? Despite its comically slow speed — and a huge distance between them, the guard stays rooted to the spot, yelling Stop! until it''s too late.

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What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

For Westerners at least, our working cultural definition owes a lot to robots in stories and film, as well as real-life robots past and present. By 2003, there were 800,000. Form-factors, intelligence, and the purpose of robots can all vary significantly. And yet many of us think we know a robot when we see one. How is this so?

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Chronic Depression - Two Wonderful Moviesw

Building Personal Strength

The other movie is "Off the Map" (2003) one of the best movies I've seen in years. Each of the characters in the film are so real that the movie seems to be about each of them. This weird solution creates its own problems. A very different story! I'll go out on a limb and call it a perfect movie in every way.

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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. From 1993 to 2003, according to the company’s current CEO, Knudstorp, the Lego Group lost value at an average rate of 300,000 euros per day. The company was in free fall.

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Saying Good Bye To Great Women

Women's Leadership Exchange

Her last book was "The Room-Mating Season" in 2003. I could hardly wait to be a teenager after seeing that film. Rona seemed quiet, and somewhat introverted, considering that she had broken new ground with her first novel in 1958 "The Best of Everything" which told a dramatic story about career women of that day.

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