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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

They master challenges with a characteristic approach, and echo the habits of renowned innovators and entrepreneurs. T he Outsider: This is person who finds novel opportunities in industries and markets you might not normally target. The Evangelist: Even the best of products and services need a story to catch fire.

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Ideas Are Not The Keys To Entrepreneurial Success

Tanveer Naseer

Most people assume that successful entrepreneurs are created solely based on how innovative and groundbreaking their new idea is. Disney didn’t think up animated films, or even amusement parks. No new idea comes formed ready for delivery to the market. The following is a guest piece by Derek Lidow.

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Slow Decline of Eastman Kodak due to an Inability to Reinvent

Coaching Tip

In its heyday, Eastman Kodak Company was an icon of innovation in photography; a juggernaut in its field. The film giant gave us the "Kodak Moment," which persists as the quintessential photographic experience even though in today''s digital camera age "selfies" on smartphones are a major factor. Kodak Focus on Film.

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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. From the 1980s into the 1990s, a persistent struggle with Kodak was waged for world market share. just as worldwide film sales almost immediately began to fall. The difference was not just in sales.

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

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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. If we didn’t study films and scouting reports, develop plays that would exploit match-ups, and execute our game plan we would lose…it was as simple as that. that can cause disruption in the market.

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Understand Your Entrepreneurial Superpower

Skip Prichard

Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. We saw something new taking hold a few years ago – San Francisco had usurped Silicon Valley as the new center of tech innovation.