Innovate The Pixar Way Business Lessons From The Worlds Most Creative Corporate Playground

Author : Bill Capodagli
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071664378
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovate the Pixar Way: Business Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Corporate Playground written by Bill Capodagli and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Details how this playful organization provides a working environment that encourages imagination, inventiveness, and joyful collaboration. If you dream of creating a more positive climate in your company, this book might just make your dreams come true.” Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Helping People Win at Work Unleash Pixar-style creativity in any organization! Authors of the business classic The Disney Way, Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson take a behind-the-scenes look at the company built upon the “magic” of Disney. Readers of this concise and accessible book will learn how to apply Pixar’s secrets of success, which include the company’s ability to turn visions into clear directives and its remarkable focus on detail, which translates into products of the utmost quality. Other lessons include how to hire creative people and always challenging the status quo.

Author : Josh Linkner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118001710
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disciplined Dreaming written by Josh Linkner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 5-part process that will transform your organization — or your career — into a non-stop creativity juggernaut We live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity-at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Linkner distills his years of experience in business and jazz — as well as hundreds of interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and artists — into a 5-step process that will make creativity easy for you and your organization. The methodology is simple, backed by proven results. Empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to meet creative challenges posed by the marketplace Turns the mystery of creativity into a simple-to-use process Shows how creativity can be used for everything from innovative, game-shifting breakthroughs to incremental advances and daily improvements to business processes Offers dozens of practical exercises, thought-starters, workouts to grow "creative muscles," and case studies Disciplined Dreaming shows even the stuffiest corporate bureaucracies how to cultivate creativity in order to become more competitive in today's shifting marketplace. #4 New York Times Best Seller (Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous) #8 New York Times Best Seller (Hardcover Business) #2 Wall Street Journal Best Seller (Hardcover Business) #9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction) #9 Washington Post Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction) #1 USA Today Best Seller (Money) #10 Entertainment Weekly Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction) #10 Publishers Weekly Bestseller (Hardcover Nonfiction)

Author : John M Clegg
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803133880
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategy and Innovation for a Changing World Part 2 written by John M Clegg and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invention and innovation are not the same. When we come up with an exciting and original new idea, by itself that idea is not an innovation. It is simply an invention, possibly a great invention, but at that point the hard work is still to be done.

Author : Greg Orme
Publisher : Pearson UK
ISBN 13 : 1292005319
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spark written by Greg Orme and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes interviews with Gail Rebuck (CEO of Penguin Random House), Sir John Hegarty (Founder of BBH) and Stuart Murphy (Director of Entertainment Channels atSky) Def: Spark (n) - an elusive moment when a new idea strikes that has the potential to transform the way you do business. Big or small, new ideas are the lifeblood of all successful businesses. They are responsible for higher profits, quicker growth and game-changing innovations. But how do you foster a creative culture, nurture new ideas and manage the people behind the electricity? The Spark answers these questions and more, unravelling the mystique around business creativity and offering 10 practical steps to building an innovative team and becoming an inspiring creative leader.

Author : Eric Herhuth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292561
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination written by Eric Herhuth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic storytelling: a tradition and theory of animation -- The uncanny integrity of digital commodities (Toy story) -- From the technological to the postmodern sublime (Monsters, Inc.) -- The exceptional dialectic of the fantastic and the mundane (The Incredibles) -- Disruptive sensation and the politics of the new (Ratatouille)

Author : Samuel Fee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461435404
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Criticism in Understanding Problem Solving written by Samuel Fee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, Denis Hlynka and John Belland released Paradigms Regained, a well received reader for graduate students in the field of educational technology. The Role of Criticism in Understanding Problem Solving updates some of those ideas initially proposed in Paradigms Regained, and extends the conversation into the contemporary discourse regarding problem based learning (PBL). Paradigms proposed the idea of criticism as a third method for the conduction of educational research, the first two being qualitative and qualitative. The concept of criticism as a tool for research is not well established in educational technology, although it is well established in other educational research traditions such as Curriculum Studies. Unfortunately, it is not always clear how criticism can be applied. This book views criticism as a way to step back and look at an educational intervention within educational technology through a particular critical lens. Criticism is viewed as a valuable approach to guiding meta analyses and theoretical studies, serving to prevent the proverbial "spinning of the wheels" that often happens in educational research. By indicating new potential research questions and directions, criticism approaches can invigorate educational research. This book revisits the ideals of criticism in order to establish their usefulness for studying educational technology interventions to support problem based learning. First, a few foundational chapters set the stage for the conversations on criticism. Then, the role criticism can play in enhancing analysis and interpretation of the PBL literature is explored. Finally, case studies addressing the central concepts of the text are presented and dissected. This book represents a complete overhaul and rethinking of the use of criticism as a method for understanding and furthering the research area of PBL within the field of Educational technology.

Author : Karen Cross
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100082537X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child written by Karen Cross and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toy Story and the Inner World of the Child offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of toys and play within the development of film and animation. The author takes the reader on a journey through the complex interweaving of the animation industry with inner world processes, beginning with the early history of film. Karen Cross explores digital meditations through an in-depth analysis of the Pixar Studios and the making of the Toy Story franchise. The book shows how the Toy Story functions as an outlet for exploring fears and anxieties relating to new technologies and industrial processes and the value of taking a psycho-cultural approach to recent controversies surrounding the film industry, particularly its cultural and sexual politics. The book is key reading for film and animation scholars as well as those who are interested in applications of psychoanalysis to popular culture and children's media.

Author : Jane Batkin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317533259
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity in Animation written by Jane Batkin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body uncovers the meaning behind some of the most influential characters in the history of animation and questions their unique sense of who they are and how they are formed. Jane Batkin explores how identity politics shape the inner psychology of the character and their exterior motivation, often buoyed along by their questioning of ‘place’ and ‘belonging’ and driven by issues of self, difference, gender and the body. Through this, Identity in Animation illustrates and questions the construction of stereotypes as well as unconventional representations within American, European and Eastern animation. It does so with examples such as the strong gender tropes of Japan’s Hayao Miyazaki, the strange relationships created by Australian director Adam Elliot and Nick Park’s depiction of Britishness. In addition, this book discusses Betty Boop’s sexuality and ultimate repression, Warner Bros’ anarchic, self-aware characters and Disney’s fascinating representation of self and society. Identity in Animation is an ideal book for students and researchers of animation studies, as well as any media and film studies students taking modules on animation as part of their course.

Author : Harald Warmelink
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135040230
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Online Gaming and Playful Organization written by Harald Warmelink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online Gaming and Playful Organization explores the cultural impact of gaming on organizations. While gaming is typically a form of entertainment, this book argues that gaming communities can function as a useful analogue for work organizations because both are comprised of diverse members who must communicate and collaborate to solve complex problems. By examining the impact of gaming beyond its own context, this book argues that one can apply numerous lessons from the virtual world of online games to the “real” world of businesses, schools, and other professional communities. Most notably, it articulates the concept of playful organizations, defined as organizations in which the ability to play has become so institutionalized that it is spontaneous, creative, and enjoyable. Based on original research, Online Gaming and Playful Organization establishes an interdisciplinary framework for further conceptual and empirical investigation into this topic, with the dual goals of a better understanding of the role of online games and virtual worlds, and of the possible structural and cultural transformation of public and private organizations.

Author : David A. Price
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307278298
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pixar Touch written by David A. Price and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot made at Lucasfilm in 1982 all the way up through the landmark films Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, and others. David A. Price goes behind the scenes of the corporate feuds between Lasseter and his former champion, Jeffrey Katzenberg, as well as between Jobs and Michael Eisner. And finally he explores Pixar's complex relationship with the Walt Disney Company as it transformed itself into the $7.4 billion jewel in the Disney crown. With an Updated Epilogue