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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.

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Brexit and the Triumph of Insularity

Harvard Business

The latter has triumphantly referred to the result as Britain’s “ independence day ,” possibly an allusion to a rousing speech in the Hollywood Sci-Fi film of the same name that featured very scary aliens. Market volatility aside, the true economic impact in the short term is unlikely to be very great.

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Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

Harvard Business

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. Of course, success of individual Hidden Champions is based on their leadership and strategy. The most important difference is the continuity of the leadership. This has allowed them to reach 70% of market share in this category. Only about 1.1%

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. The fall can come quickly.

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Misunderstanding quality

Seth Godin Blog

They thought that what would ensure their future was better fidelity film. And without a doubt, they delivered on the promise of ever better film stock, with all the things a professional photographer could hope for. Polaroid, for a while a disruptive competitor of Kodak''s, fell into precisely the same trap.

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A Professional Services Marketing Self-Assessment

Prudent Pedal

I’m releasing a new Professional Services Marketing Assessment. Leaders who seek me out are frustrated with their marketing results. Firm leaders almost always think their “marketing problem” is a “Marketing function” problem. It measures critical areas of Marketing health— that’s Marketing with a capital “M.” .

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Leaders vs. Leading

CaseInterview.com

The show is filmed before a live audience consisting of students at a well-known film school. If you’re a marketer and you did a great marketing campaign, you think you did a great job. One of my favorite television shows is Inside the Actors Studio. Followers are task-oriented, while leaders are results-oriented.

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