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Transformation During Crisis | Simon Leslie

Peter Winick

Today, I’m talking with Simon Leslie, the co-founder and CEO of Ink Global, a media company that connects brands with global audiences. Plus Simon explains how they feed their content into passengers’ social media, based on their travels, to connect brands with audiences in an all-new way. That would probably be it.

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The Single Greatest Source of Your Organizational Problems (and their solutions)

Get Lighthouse

When founders and CEOs are asked what their biggest challenge is, they typically fall among this set: Turnover Productivity Process management Shipping times/revenue cycles Job role design People and leadership pipelines Relationships with customers The need to be more innovative. They use politics and play favorites to assign work.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

Pundits had proclaimed that the newspaper industry was a shuffling dinosaur as the commercial Internet took off in the late 1990s, yet most companies still had healthy financial statements and stable balance sheets. Industry leaders were buoyant because advertising revenues continued to grow over the next couple of years.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. In a rapidly changing industry ecosystem, heavy investments in hard infrastructure can burden balance sheets and limit flexibility.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

That fact becomes apparent when you juxtapose the balance sheet of a company like Microsoft with the balance sheet of a company like Siemens. Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. It’s as simple as that. The challenge?

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

All of that is moot, the next argument goes, because the real disruption occurred when cameras merged with phones, and people shifted from printing pictures to posting them on social media and mobile phone apps. And Kodak totally missed that. But it didn’t, entirely. The right lessons from Kodak are subtle.

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The Fiscal Cliff Is Just a Long-Overdue Hangover

Harvard Business Review

fiscal cliff debacle is being played up in the media as if the entire US economy will cease to exist come January 2, 2013. The media tends to downplay that these cuts would be spread over ten years. Jumping over the cliff will hurt — just not as badly as the media are making it appear. The big scary number of $1.2