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“Conflict shouldn’t be taboo”
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…in our current company, when people see conflict, they address it, talk about it,...Branding now “is aggressively self-aware, exaggerated and self-referential to the point of collapsing in on itself”
“No one seems to remember that television networks are corporations to begin with”
Millenials “want to always be learning, always be growing, and they’re looking for that constant feedback”
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We don’t wait until the annual performance review to give feedback. You never want...The More Successful Movie Studios Become, the Less Risk-Averse They Are
The instinct to retrench and overemphasize strategies that have worked in the past is a common problem in companies as they get bigger and have more to lose, particularly as technologies change. Polaroid and BlackBerry doubled down on their time-tested formulas despite market changes, suggesting that this behavior can undermine even the most successful companies. “The more successful and larger they become, the more antibodies they develop to doing anything new,” said Alan MacCormack, a Harvard Business School professor. And this may explain why summer 2015 will see sequels in the franchises for “Batman,” “Superman,” “Avengers,” “Terminator,” “Independence Day,” “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Smurfs.”
Catherine Rampell, “Revenge of the Nerds”, The New York Times Magazine (8 September 2013), 16.