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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Catmull and John Lasseter, Pixar’s CEO, were appointed to lead the unit as president and CEO, respectively. With 70 percent of American workers disengaged today, Pixar and Disney Animation provide a model for engaging and energizing employees by making culture a competitive advantage. Care about people first.

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The Small Voice in the Room

Leading Blog

I had just come off my first CEO assignment with Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. With this cybersecurity background, I was recruited to run another security company that had developed a clever computer card implementation of the emerging virtual private networking standard. Unfortunately. Knox, Kentucky.

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6 New Rules for the Digital Age

Leading Blog

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan is one of those books. As opposed to: Until recently, the greatest competitive advantage went to companies that controlled distribution channels, had hard assets on the largest scale, or had established brands or patents. Its ecosystem does.

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This Is What You Need to Learn to Become A Successful CEO

Lead from Within

Most articles that try to tell you how to become a great CEO will talk about actions, plans and processes. To be a great CEO or an effective leader you must first start with who you are as a leader. Once you have clarity in that area, you can move on to what, when, where, and why of being an effective CEO. So how do you start?

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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience. To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing.

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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions.

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Cultivating a Culture of Connection at Home

Michael Lee Stallard

In Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work , we wrote: When John Bowlby studied homeless and orphaned children following World War II, he found that children who experienced little or no connection developed emotional and behavioral problems.

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