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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. 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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Complimentary Resource – How to Leverage SRM For Supply Chain Resiliency

Strategy Driven

Strong supplier relationships can provide a competitive advantage but are often not cultivated effectively. In today’s competitive environment, that is no longer sufficient. Strong supplier relationships can provide a key competitive advantage. Complimentary Resource – Emerging Trends in Project Management.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7

Strategy Driven

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

Strategy Driven

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7

Strategy Driven

In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. They not only kill productivity and profitability, they also kill the generative moods of ambition, confidence, and trust that are essential to building consistent competitive advantage.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

We are facing a new world – one that calls for new approaches to generating consistent competitive advantage. The near-universal rush to cut costs and headcount is more likely distracting us from, rather than enabling, the real work of retooling our enterprises to be competitive in this new world. Suppressing Innovation.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7

Strategy Driven

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. About the Author. All rights reserved.