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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. The creative teams he developed laid the foundations for today’s music, movie, and telecommunications industries.

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Picasso and Project Management

Strategy Driven

Films, books, etc. This just means that if they love films, they may still read a book. Or even a simple enhancement, like a book’s re-release with extra chapters or a film’s Director’s cut. Creating a Director’s cut is much easier than creating the original film from scratch for example. all have their impact on society.

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The Inevitable Disruption of Television

Harvard Business Review

And that's the story I sling every time I walk into a meeting with film and TV executives. While Rogers' examples all centered around innovation in agricultural production, his ideas are just as relevant in media and telecommunications. People are primed to embrace disruption in telecommunications.

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OTT Video Is Creating Cord-Extenders, Not Cord-Cutters

Harvard Business Review

Multi-billion dollar media companies, broadcasters, and cable oligopolies are having to compete for both eyeballs and revenues with a plethora of multinational technology and telecommunications giants who know more about viewer behavior. Megamergers won’t solve for this disruption.

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Make Your Work More Meaningful

Harvard Business Review

I saw this firsthand when I was a PhD student, in the call center of a large telecommunications company. Indeed, even in jobs that may look dismal from the outside, there are always steps you can take to build the kind of meaning that will make you feel better and work better. as well as daily totals of calls handled and sales made.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.