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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. From the 1980s into the 1990s, a persistent struggle with Kodak was waged for world market share. The difference was not just in sales.

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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

T he Outsider: This is person who finds novel opportunities in industries and markets you might not normally target. The global crisis has made this role even more essential. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. Step One: Start with the idea generators 1. They master the “beginner’s mind.”

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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. They’ve never missed. In my observable opinion, because of a few rules: They take their time. They do the BEST that they can. All the time.

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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

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Product Success Is Not About the Zeitgeist

Harvard Business Review

A New Hope, the Harry Potter films, and The Hunger Games have something in common: They fit with the zeitgeist. The Hunger Games combined science fiction and adventure (conventional boy stuff) with a strong sense of romance (conventional girl stuff), and it addressed our anxieties about technology and surveillance.