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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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The Development Of A Dream

Joseph Lalonde

However, we don’t see the instant production of these results. Think of the old 35mm cameras and the film that was used. Bring the film to the store for processing. The film goes into a dark room. This woman wanted to sleep with Joseph, but he resisted her advances time and again. You would take a picture.

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Thoughts About Big Changes vs. Little Changes

Lead Change Blog

In all educational examples, the best goals are not degrees, diplomas, or certificates, but enhanced thinking skills and more effective abilities to be a productive person. They remind me somewhat of Bob’s small “ baby steps “ in a classic film about change and growth.

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Collaboration & Six Ways to Make It Work

You're Not the Boss of Me

But of course we all know that ‘simple’ does not always equate to ‘easy’ This post, from 2011, takes a look at how we might create a working environment that helps to make collaboration possible…and also productive. =. I envied her ability to simply become part of the group. Make Others Look Good.

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

Harvard Business Review

In 1992, to free-up warehouse space, the UK team promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. Yet, it tried to sell its digital cameras using the same business model as its film-based cameras – by aiming to make high margins on instant film sales.

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Finding the Healthy Tension Between Being Confident and Collaborative

Harvard Business Review

Long before a computer-animated feature film was technically possible, Catmull and Lasseter were determined to make one. Jobs is legendary for this: He weighed in on everything from a product’s functionality to the design of its packaging. I saw Lasseter bring the same attention to every frame of Pixar’s films.

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Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

I’m feeling a great deal of resistance from people about creating videos to grow their business. It should be about how they were reluctant, about how they thought the kid next door could do it, about how they thought the price was too high, about how they thought they were ugly on film.

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