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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. I believe the answer is yes.

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Business Leadership Expertise: Give a Gift of Honoring :: Women on.

Women on Business

Right now I am researching the first section of my new book “Dipping in the WELL: Women Executive Leadership Learning”. Strong yet Others are from books, films and politics. At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. They do not take time trudging through stores or surfing the internet.

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What They Didn’t Teach You at Business School about Negotiation

Great Leadership By Dan

Rather than bargaining over film distribution agreements and intellectual property, they combined their imaginations to design an ecosystem of creativity. He owned the American market (some 60 million at the time), but his dreams were bigger: the entire British Empire (about 400 million). And one man stood in his way.

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Tribal or Transformational? How to grow your startup when new business rolls in

Strategy Driven

But after meeting internal resistance, we integrated elements of going tribal to create a new company, Division-D. As digital technology disrupted Kodak’s business, they held onto the film business as everyone was going digital. We used the tribal concept when we created a new video-focused advertising company, AdKarma.

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Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, I am a marketing and sales rep for a company that sells emergency cleanup services. I’m feeling a great deal of resistance from people about creating videos to grow their business. What’s your proactive marketing approach to loyalty? You just finished reading Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers. !

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Using M&A to Increase Your Capacity for Growth

Harvard Business Review

In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth. Perhaps Pixar, the creative upstart, would resist being swallowed up by Disney, the waning incumbent.

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The Kony 2012 "Controversy"

Harvard Business Review

Instead of a film, they ended up creating a massive movement to save children from abduction into Kony's rebel army. We build institutes for leadership and the advancement of civil society on our campuses for it. Spending too much money on film and media. It's a film and media organization for Christ's sake.

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