Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

T]echnology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing. John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar, echoed this sentiment stating, “Technology inspires art, and art challenges the technology.”

Development 14

Development Article Technology Belief Systems 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Every action can change perceptions, motivations and actions, such that a list of individually plausible actions can easily create the opposite of the intended effect. A nascent technology business might require an adaptive approach and a stable commodity business might require a classical, planning-based approach.

Execution 10

Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

After Mickey, they continued to push the boundaries of the film industry. Their next mayor project was a transcendental film: Snow White , the first full-length animated movie. At the time, the technology needed to create a full-length animated film was barely ready, and the project was considered ludicrous.

Film 8

Film Creativity Comparison Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Pride is a better motivator than money and relying on financial or promotion incentives to elicit employee engagement in social media initiatives can backfire.

Media 15

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Recently, we found ourselves in motivational seminars at our respective places of employment. And just because we have more advanced technology today doesn’t mean we’re any closer to pinning down a definition, as Will Davies reminds us in his new book The Happiness Industry. Both events preached the gospel of happiness.

Film 8

Film Seminar EVA Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Technology trends and tools like the cloud, and collaboration suites, are evolving to make this more and more workable. Clusters offer four main benefits: Higher levels of business performance through higher motivation. They manage, govern and develop themselves; define their own working practices and tools; and share out remuneration.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Talent Management Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Film ratings. As a company that thrives when people consume more content, Netflix routinely serves up personalized recommendations to customers based on their feedback on films they've already viewed. What are we to conclude from these three areas — all of them problems with fine, highly motivated minds focused on them?

Wireless 8

Wireless Film Advertising Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

But the prospect of now tackling a lengthy punch list — build a website, create a speaker's sheet, film a speaker's reel, record an audio Q&A, finalize/plead for blurbs, finalize copy edits, write an e-book to accompany the book — obscured my vision of a future where readers would hold the book in their hands and be inspired to dream.

Innovation 16

Innovation Incubator Business Model Wilde 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

So what do you do if you''re not in a setting where meaning is obvious — because your organization, for example, exists to provide life-saving technology or to raise people out of poverty? The key is to link your personal values and motivations to the work you perform. as well as daily totals of calls handled and sales made.

Call Center 10

Call Center Telecommunications Stress Film 10

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others. Our technology whizzes along at the velocity of a speeding electron, and our poor overtaxed neurons struggle to keep up. Truly creative people tend not to be motivated by money. But here’s the thing.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Strategy Driven

MAY 9, 2019

Relevant formats to consider, include: movie trailers and documentary films. Whether marketing, senior management, strategy/insights, sales or other constituencies, each event should be formatted and experiences calibrated to the motivations and level of knowledge of each audience.

Storytelling 51

Storytelling Marketing Audience Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Encourage “technology-free meetings” whenever possible. Proponents say they also improve collaboration and innovation, and opponents report that they cause higher stress and lower concentration, motivation, and cognitive functioning. Frosted film or patterned glass walls instead of clear glass.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Energy Policies Planning 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. ’ What they’re really selling: Motivational tapes. Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings. Retailers are motivated by keeping the cash registers ringing.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50