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From Consulting and Coaching to IP: How to Create, Protect, and Monetize Your Unique Body of Work with Erin Austin

Consulting Matters

Erin shares her journey from a big corporate law firm to working in the film business in LA and how her experiences led her to focus on helping business owners understand and capitalize on their intellectual property. Her special talent is helping women meet their growth goals through the creation of IP-based revenue streams.

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The True Spirit of Mr. Rogers

The Fearless Marketer

On Thanksgiving day, My wife and I went to see the Mr. Rogers film, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. This is one of those rare films that can create a shift in one’s perspective about life. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. But it rarely lasts very long.

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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. To perform at your peak, focus on what sets you apart.

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Too Many Men Are Silent Bystanders to Sexual Harassment

Harvard Business

submarines were surreptitiously filmed in the bathroom. Marginalizing and alienating 50% of the nation’s talent is a script for failure. By the end of the meeting, I felt my fight-or-flight response kick in, anxious that I was going to have to be the one to say something. I was the only woman in the room.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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

Harvard Business

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. D-BASE/Getty Images. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. But a sickening number of those investments fail. And every time you create a handoff, you risk dropping the baton.

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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. Meet Gallup Press – yet another branch of an already rapidly growing information empire.