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France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema

MishTalk

RT reports French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion France''s Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to financing French culture. billion ($1.8

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business

In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. Few would deny the importance of corporate culture, for example, even though it is not easily quantifiable. customers in order to boost sales. Insight center.

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France Goes After Actor Salaries; Sunday Shopping "Reform" French Style

MishTalk

The Wall Street Journal reports In France, Popular Actors May Pay for Change in Funding for Films. 1, the Centre National du Cinéma, the government agency that funds film production, will shun films in which the pay to the star actors exceeds a certain percentage of production costs. Effective Jan. million ($1.85 million ($1.85

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A Professional Services Marketing Self-Assessment

Prudent Pedal

Staff ineptness, website deficiencies, social media strategies, misallocated marketing budgets, the absence of brochures, lack of sales and marketing integration, CRM, or cross-selling demands are common complaints. I’ve focused on brand problems that were really sales problems.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, is the faculty chair of Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation, a new program teaching executives how to create an organization equipped for innovative problem solving. Join the Conversation. To learn more about this program visit us here.

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NFTs are a dangerous trap

Seth Godin Blog

Like a Pokemon card, or an original Picasso drawing or the actual frame of a Disney animated film from 1955, NFTs are designed to be the one and only, a shred of non-fungible reality in a world gone digital. They sell at garage sales for dollars, not millions, and original (and beautiful) works of art go unsold every day.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business

An important part of the city’s cultural scene, the San Francisco Opera dates back to the 1850s. Ticket sales cover just a fraction of its production and administrative costs, with the balance coming from donations, grants and endowment. The SFO culture had a strong bias towards maintaining the highest possible production values.

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