Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

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 Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked.

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Film Human Resources Technology Maturity 150

Lead Change Blog

MAY 20, 2015

Throughout my careers, goals have always been important elements of my work. In all educational examples, the best goals are not degrees, diplomas, or certificates, but enhanced thinking skills and more effective abilities to be a productive person. Well-chosen small changes create the basis for a culture of continual change.

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Tactics Long-term Goal Film 150

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

Over the course of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with people doing extraordinary things: inventors, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, and even a Buddhist master. Long before a computer-animated feature film was technically possible, Catmull and Lasseter were determined to make one. We need a counterweight: collaboration.

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Film Storytelling Bureaucracy Resistance 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

While it is a clever film, it highlights very disturbing things that go on in some organizations. And, over the course of my career, I have also occasionally done some of these things as well. And it suggests that the primary task of many of its employees is to find ways of being paid while doing as little as possible.

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Video P&L Blog Long-term 44

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. To resist the urge to self-censor.

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Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Ticket sales cover just a fraction of its production and administrative costs, with the balance coming from donations, grants and endowment. 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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Audience Brainstorming Project Class 8