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Business Lessons from How Marvel Makes Movies

Harvard Business

Research shows that several strategies drive this success; they include bringing in different types of talent while also maintaining a stable core creative team then working together to challenge the superhero action-film formula.

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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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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. How well does your business strategy support the fulfillment of your company’s purpose?

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Make Your Strategy More Agile

Harvard Business

Organizations have begun to realize that it can also be applied to a traditionally slow function: strategy. Designed as a thoughtful multistakeholder process, strategy has long been the domain of careful deliberation based on a maximum amount of information. In a dynamic marketplace, the value of traditional strategy is diminishing.

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Will strategy consultants (again) be the masters of the universe?

The Source

What the film tapped into, of course, was the public perception that consultants were arrogant know-it-alls, spotty business school graduates who felt they had the experience to tell captains of industry what to do. Perhaps strategy consultants are now genuinely positioned to become the masters of the universe.

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7 Ways Your Website Can Transform Your Life

Consulting Matters

Clarity: Good strategy is nothing but tough decisions and tradeoffs. It is hard to film videos if you have never done so before, or to ask for testimonials. Imagine how your life would change if you knew that you spent every day using your gifts and talents in a productive way and were paid well in return.

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Using M&A to Increase Your Capacity for Growth

Harvard Business

As a result, Pixar’s creative talent remained on board as they kept visible markers of Pixar’s identity: e-mail addresses, logos, employment contracts, and benefits. At Disney, this meant convincing Pixar to outsource some parts of production and to pursue direct-to-DVD films. Recombine to maximize exploration.

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