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The Pros and Cons of Robot Managers

Harvard Business

Although the idea may sound far-fetched, not least because the automation of jobs is usually discussed vis-à-vis unskilled labor rather than management-level positions, it is actually more feasible than most people think. Workers around the world are disengaged with their jobs, and poor management is a major source of this problem.

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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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Using M&A to Increase Your Capacity for Growth

Harvard Business

In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth. But some manage to keep or regain it—they rejuvenate. In short, they lose their exploratory drive.

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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. 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.” Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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

Management Consulted

I was using that time to transition into a project management role in media. I got a part-time job in a retail store, and in my downtime I just started a learning a lot of the tools necessary in order to be a producer/project manager in media. I also landed an apprenticeship with a company called Friendly Human Productions.

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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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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

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. This new method was named “Q12 measurements,” which offered a platform his was a huge management consulting breakthrough!