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Fujifilm Succeeded Where Kodak Failed

Coaching Tip

Eastman Kodak was head and shoulders above all the others in the manufacture of photographic film when Fujifilm wasn't in 1963. Kodak's technology was also far ahead of Fujifilm's. just as worldwide film sales almost immediately began to fall. Maybe I was brought into this world to overcome this crisis,' I thought at the time.

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Want To Be The Best? Study Pixar. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

Most of their films take three years to make. They look at the whole movie – not just the story, or the characters, or the voices, or the technology – they make it all work. I am creating a Leadership Development class for Japanese students of business English. They’ve never missed. All the time. Is that OK?

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Trust in Business Leadership

Coaching Tip

The 2008 global financial crisis, a series of corporate scandals that have eroded organizational trust, including Volkswagen, BP and Enron, and an emphasis on transparency brought about by the combined impact of globalization, technology, and demographic changes have all combined to bring trust in business to what may be an all-time low.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

When there’s enough intrigue to keep a film crew busy, enough &# ah-ha&# moments for disconnected CEOS, and enough shock and dismay to satisfy a nationwide TV audience then I submit to you that the issue we’re discussing today is a very real one…Many CEOs are simply out of touch with their businesses.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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The End of Banks as We Know Them?

Harvard Business Review

Even before the banking crisis of 2008, something was gradually, but undeniably, in decline. An entrepreneur in the small community of Skatteungby, some 300 kilometers from Stockholm, asked the JAK Bank for a loan to develop a shop. The classic film offers an eloquent lesson in how much good a bank can do for a community.

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The End of Banks as We Know Them?

Harvard Business Review

Even before the banking crisis of 2008, something was gradually, but undeniably, in decline. An entrepreneur in the small community of Skatteungby, some 300 kilometers from Stockholm, asked the JAK Bank for a loan to develop a shop. The classic film offers an eloquent lesson in how much good a bank can do for a community.