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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: With the leadership change, Disney began to produce hits such as Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph. Care about people first.

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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects. Armed with ready ideas, the lead team can decide who will post what and when, creating a consistent, time-efficient social marketing strategy.

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StrategyDriven Enterprises Extends its Energy Advisory Services, Partners with NTE Solutions

Strategy Driven

This partnership will create a more complete set of offerings that efficiently serve diversified generation utility executives.” Project development and management. NTE Solutions’ project teams work collaboratively across disciplines to provide high-value solutions to clients in the power, water and oil & gas industries.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7

Strategy Driven

In our rush to ‘modernize’ everything and make our enterprises more efficient, we have mistakenly come to believe that information is our most valuable commodity. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #4: Worship of Information. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions

Strategy Driven

Successful decisions engage stakeholders effectively and efficiently. He earned his BA magna cum laude from Harvard and his MBA and JD from Stanford and previously led projects for McKinsey & Company. When people who have a stake in an issue get left out of the decision, they feel slighted and become resistant to change.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7

Strategy Driven

While this might have been the most efficient way to train assembly line workers during the Industrial Era, human capital is now the greatest resource for most companies. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved. Lock in and Engage Top Talent.