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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?

Film 150
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James Bond, Dunder Mifflin, and the Future of Product Placement

Harvard Business Review

An obvious solution is product placement, a company paying for its product to be featured prominently in a film or television program as a form of advertising. product placement market grew by 12.8% The trouble is that the huge success of product placement is causing a dip in its credibility and effectiveness as a marketing channel.

Bond 8
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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. A nascent technology business might require an adaptive approach and a stable commodity business might require a classical, planning-based approach. A little later, the U.S. customers in order to boost sales. As we now know, the company lost to rivals.

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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

In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. 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. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

Company 62
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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

In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. 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. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

Company 50
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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.

Brand 50
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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market.