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

The Source

Titled, in an even-handed sort of way, “Masters of the Universe”, it purported to lift the curtain on the consulting industry, with predictably unedifying results. But other things have changed, too. Perhaps strategy consultants are now genuinely positioned to become the masters of the universe.

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Finding the Healthy Tension Between Being Confident and Collaborative

Harvard Business

Namely, they combine their talent with an important balance between self-confidence and collaboration. Long before a computer-animated feature film was technically possible, Catmull and Lasseter were determined to make one. I saw Lasseter bring the same attention to every frame of Pixar’s films.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Survey research was his passion and he began to apply these procedures to various fields of industry. He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. Government.

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4 Reasons Leaders Struggle with Corporate Strategy

LSA Global

Every company has uniqueness to their strategy, culture and talent. A classic example of this strategic mistake is when Kodak decided it was in the film business without looking ahead at the implications of how the development of digital cameras would affect their industry. Defining the Business Wrong. The Bottom Line.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. .” Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

Harvard Business

In the last week, film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment — which many have described as an open secret in Hollywood — have exploded onto the pages of the New York Times. Emma Innocenti/Getty Images. The New Yorker documents even more disturbing accusations of rape and assault.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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