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Trust in Business Leadership

Coaching Tip

As late as 1976, Kodak accounted for 90% of film sales and 85% of camera sales in the United States. Fast forward to the early 1990s and a new disruptive technology appeared in Kodak’s market: digital photography. In 2004, Kodak shed 25% of its workforce and was de-listed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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The Faustian Bargain of Online Services

Harvard Business Review

Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. Online marketing Social media Technology' The concept of irony was, after all, invented by the Greeks.).

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

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How to Manage Multiple Partnerships

Harvard Business Review

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. The long-standing exclusive arrangement between Xerox and Fuji Photo Film in Japan is one example; pharmaceutical licensing across markets is another. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. It can work, but it's rare.