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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. This generation is the first to be raised in a post-industrial era driven by technology.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

Career Transitions. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. Change Your Career Without Having to Start All Over Again. If the technologies that help us look for a job have changed in significant ways, I reasoned, it’s likely that the ways we get information about jobs have also changed.

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How to Prepare for a Crisis You Couldn’t Possibly Predict

Harvard Business Review

On the morning of May 18, 2012, at precisely 11:05, Nasdaq planned to execute the first trade in in Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offering. Some teams, such as film crews and SWAT teams, face surprises all the time. In the film industry, this knowledge comes from how people progress through their careers.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings. Greatness is earned over an entire career. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. It’s a sick phenomena.

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