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7 Ways Your Website Can Transform Your Life

Consulting Matters

When you start to list your products and services against your value proposition, you will be forced to decide which business you will be in and which you will not be in. It is hard to film videos if you have never done so before, or to ask for testimonials. Clarity: Good strategy is nothing but tough decisions and tradeoffs.

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Strategy for Success—Why Growth Is Not an Option

LSA Global

And it is more than that…it is the living force behind what attracts high performing talent, brand name strategic partners and desirable target customers. High Performing Talent. You work together to update your products and services so you can rapidly change with customer needs.

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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. At Disney, this meant convincing Pixar to outsource some parts of production and to pursue direct-to-DVD films.

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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. The next explanation is that Kodak mismanaged its investment in digital cameras, overshooting the market by trying to match performance of traditional film rather than embrace the simplicity of digital.

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Aging Societies Should Make More of Mentorship

Harvard Business

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

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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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