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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Pixar has been phenomenally successful with the likes of Toy Story , The Incredibles , Finding Nemo, and Up, to name but a few of its films. If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. Pixar’s purpose is to “make great films.” It’s why they stay.

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Picasso and Project Management

Strategy Driven

Films, books, etc. This just means that if they love films, they may still read a book. Creating a Director’s cut is much easier than creating the original film from scratch for example. So what does any of this have to do with Project Management? The common theme from the above is with projects themselves.

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Unconditional Love Can Change the World

Ron Edmondson

His latest project with former American Idol finalist Danny Gokey will be released by NavPress in October 2013. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TRAILER from LifeWay Films on Vimeo. This is a guest post by my good friend Ben Stroup. Ben is a writer and consultant. Unconditional Love Can Change the World. Buy the book HERE.

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Tribal or Transformational? How to grow your startup when new business rolls in

Strategy Driven

As digital technology disrupted Kodak’s business, they held onto the film business as everyone was going digital. Instead of building an entirely new tribe (like with AdKarma), we started building small groups within the old structure to champion important projects. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Four Lean Advertising Campaigns That Went Viral

Harvard Business Review

But the odds of replicating that success are low: Just 3% of YouTube films are viewed more than 25,000 times. Many companies have turned to Tongal, a four-year-old firm that, for a fee, posts specs for a project and matches it with freelance creative talent willing to work for relatively low pay. Speed Stick/Tongal. Advertising'

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. Glitches at Netflix have caused outages as well as strange mashup summaries for different films. Blockstream and the sidechain projects that follow will turn the blockchain into a universal platform that can be used for anything requiring signatures or authentication.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes.