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Will strategy consultants (again) be the masters of the universe?

The Source

What the film tapped into, of course, was the public perception that consultants were arrogant know-it-alls, spotty business school graduates who felt they had the experience to tell captains of industry what to do. Perhaps strategy consultants are now genuinely positioned to become the masters of the universe.

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Business Lessons from How Marvel Makes Movies

Harvard Business

Spencer Harrison, an associate professor at INSEAD, says that managers in any industry can learn from the success of the Marvel movie franchise. While some sequels lack creativity, Marvel manages to make each of its new releases just different enough, so consumers are not just satisfied but also surprised. ”

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Make Your Strategy More Agile

Harvard Business

Organizations have begun to realize that it can also be applied to a traditionally slow function: strategy. Designed as a thoughtful multistakeholder process, strategy has long been the domain of careful deliberation based on a maximum amount of information. In a dynamic marketplace, the value of traditional strategy is diminishing.

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Darlene Love - Christmas Wish

MishTalk

She has proven herself a talented actress as well on stage and screen, starring as Danny Glover''s wife in all of the Lethal Weapon films and lighting-up Broadway in such musicals as Grease and the Tony Award-nominated Leader of the Pack. She gained prominence in the 1960s for the song "He''s a Rebel," a No. recorded in 1969.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

If you’re in the same boat – wanting to break in, but without a strategy – check out what we have to say below, and feel free to sign up for a Power Half Hour. I was using that time to transition into a project management role in media. Yeah, sure. Okay, awesome. We’ve got to get that on there. Okay, great.

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Using M&A to Increase Your Capacity for Growth

Harvard Business

But some manage to keep or regain it—they rejuvenate. As a result, Pixar’s creative talent remained on board as they kept visible markers of Pixar’s identity: e-mail addresses, logos, employment contracts, and benefits. They are highly efficient at what they do, but struggle to do anything new.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. No strategy is static. Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.”

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