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How Netflix’s Content Strategy Is Reshaping Movie Culture

Harvard Business

” If you’ve seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, that one line probably conjures up memories of Oh yeah, chicka chicka, Ferraris, playing hooky, and dating in high school — all of which feature heavily in the hit coming-of-age film. This is how Blockbuster used to operate, at least when it came to mainstream domestic films.

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A Professional Services Marketing Self-Assessment

Prudent Pedal

I’m releasing a new Professional Services Marketing Assessment. Leaders who seek me out are frustrated with their marketing results. Firm leaders almost always think their “marketing problem” is a “Marketing function” problem. I’ve replaced underperforming technologies that were actually hindered by cultural issues.

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France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema

MishTalk

RT reports French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion France''s Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to financing French culture. billion ($1.8

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

Harvard Business

” This and a slew of similar maxims reflect a common view of strategy execution: that it’s distinct from strategy, harder to pull off than defining a strategy, and therefore more critical to success — underpinned by seemingly indisputable virtues such as diligence, discipline, consistency, alignment, and focus.

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France Goes After Actor Salaries; Sunday Shopping "Reform" French Style

MishTalk

The Wall Street Journal reports In France, Popular Actors May Pay for Change in Funding for Films. 1, the Centre National du Cinéma, the government agency that funds film production, will shun films in which the pay to the star actors exceeds a certain percentage of production costs. Effective Jan. million ($1.85 million ($1.85

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Strategy is how the business will achieve it. And yet it is possible.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. The widely touted reasons for these failures include censorship by the Chinese government and cultural differences between China and the West. And yet Western digital firms haven’t given up on trying to tap into China’s rapidly growing market.