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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. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. It is also be a mistake to restrict ourselves to managing what we can easily measure. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. ” Metric obsession. Insight center. A little later, the U.S.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. No wasted film, slides, or prints. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. Carl had a Ph.D.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. No wasted film, slides, or prints. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most and Least Resilient Economies

Harvard Business Review

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, although some of our clients have been facing difficulties resulting from the current environment, primarily because of currency pressures, many others are continuing to see strong growth, even in troubled markets such as South Africa and Angola.

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Now is The Time to Monetize Yourself with a Vlog!

Strategy Driven

Product placement or recommendations in videos for affiliate marketing partners. Vimeo – grow your business with video creation, hosting, and marketing tools. Clearly define your niche and target market. That demographic sliver of the world’s web traffic is your target market. Instagram TV (IGTV) – Videos for Instagram.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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