Toy Story 3’s Lee Unkrich Accepts Oscar for “Best Animated Feature”

Big dreams call for big celebrations, and Pixar is throwing a BIG party for a BIG award!   Congratulations to Pixar and to Lee!

National Seminars Presents Customer Service – The Disney Way with Bill Capodagli

Bill Capodagli presents Customer Service - The Disney Way

National Seminars Live Web & Audio Web Conference
Item No. 1832272

$179.00

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03/08/2011

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST

Innovate the Pixar Way Book Cover Wins Design Award

Dowagiac Union Schools Superintendent Invitation to Disney Way Initiative

It gives me great pleasure to invite you to Dream with Dowagiac Union Schools. As representatives of Dowagiac Union Schools, Larry Seurynck, Board President, and I would like to express our sincere desire for you to attend the keynote address presented by Bill Capodagli on Monday, February 28, at 6:00 PM at the Dowagiac Middle School Performing Arts Center. Bill Capodagli is the author of the best seller, The Disney Way and Innovate The Pixar Way, and an international business consultant for Fortune 500 companies.

The keynote address will begin the process of creating a collaborative plan with community members to prepare our students for the demands of the 21st Century and a global economy. The Dowagiac Union Schools Board of Trustees and I believe all people of Dowagiac should be part of the dream process to shape Dowagiac Schools for the next decade. From my experience exceptional student achievement can be obtained and sustained if a common dream is generated and implemented with community input and support.

To that end, please join us for this keynote address to be part of the beginning of the Disney Way initiative. An initiative ensuring high school graduates are ready to enter college or other post secondary training. A plan where students trust through education and training they can make a family sustaining wage. A Dowagiac Dream where students can rise to the rigor of the curriculum because they have significant relationships with adults making the curriculum relevant and meaningful resulting in higher test scores, increased academic achievement, and increased graduation rates.

Utilizing community input, a 21st Century Educational Plan will be crafted and presented to our community with a target date of August 31, 2011. As superintendent of Dowagiac Union Schools, I can honestly state our Dowagiac Union Schools will improve because stakeholders like you participated in our Dreaming, Believing, Daring, and Doing. I look forward to seeing you on February 28, 2011. There is no cost except your valuable time and a commitment to our Dowagiac community.

Dr. Mark Daniel

             Superintendent

Italian Nonprofit Management Magazine Review of Innovate the Pixar Way

The following review was sent to us today from Valerio Melandri, Director of Philanthropy Centro Studi, Universita`diEconomia di Forli

 

Terzo Settore– II sole 24 Ore MAGAZINE

(Published in Milan)

 

Starting from the
business case
one of
most important
studios in the world,
authors, business advisors,
deduced settings
the strategic basis of the statement
company in question.
According to its authors
success is mainly due
team spirit, respect
and mutual trust, the
ability to believe in dreams and
then to achieve them. In the appendix,
The text is enriched by curiosity,
anecdotes and references to other
major companies that have
traced this pattern.
(Adele Guardigli)

The Justify Blog Review of Innovate the Pixar Way

It’s been a while since we’ve talked book reviews, but we finished reading “Innovate the Pixar Way” by Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson this weekend. To summarize in a few points as possible:

• The book was pretty light on the history of Pixar
• The artwork, pull-quote text and some chapters come across almost condescending, but mostly it sounds like they’re trying too hard.

The whole premise of the book when I picked it up was to get an inside look at Pixar Animation Studios, to really have in-depth interviews with their staff or past employees. It wasn’t so much that as it was a compilation of quotes and tidbits compiled from other video and text interviews conducted with key staff over the years. And while it wasn’t the job of this book to run you through the whole history of Pixar, the amount of text supplied to educate the reader on Pixar could be picked up from Wikipedia.

To be honest, I didn’t like this book. It read very vaguely with whispy high-flying ideas on how to innovate and be creative by having fun at work and letting employees be creative with their office space and not getting tied up in your failures. All good ideas, but not practical if your business has less than a few million in the bank.

One good takeaway was a look at Disney and Walt Disney himself, alongside Ed Catmull and Jon Lasseter of Pixar. The concept of scrapping work that was merely “good enough” to take advantage of “great work” is valid, important and arguably the most important lesson of the book. The authors give good examples, accounts and stories to further this concept well.

In all, a pretty light book on Pixar from a detail standpoint; there’s nothing new to be read here that can’t be surmised from articles, videos and interviews already on the Internet.

 

Bill and Lynn say, “He’s right about the book being ‘pretty light on the history of Pixar.’  (If you want to read a book about Pixar’s history, pick up droidMAKER or The Pixar Touch.)  He’s wrong about needing ‘a few million in the bank’ to practice the principles.  In the early days of Pixar, they were operating in the red and STILL found ways to jazz up their offices, keep team spirit soaring, and encourage fun in the workplace. Lastly, the purpose of this book was not to provide a Pixar cookie cutter approach to developing an innovative culture, but rather to spark one’s imagination for producing a dream, believe, dare, do culture that is right for each reader’s organization. As Bill says in his keynote presentations, ‘Innovate, don’t Imitate.  It’s hard work.  There’s no instant pudding.’”

National Seminars Presents Leadership–The Disney Way

Bill Capodagli presents Leadership - The Disney Way

Live Web & Audio Audio Conference
Item No. 1832244

$179.00

Audio Conference

 

02/14/2011

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST

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Success isn’t magic. It's systematic. It comes from passionate leadership and the relentless pursuit of a long-term foundation for excellence. What better business model to follow than that of the phenomenal Walt Disney — an industry titan with a gift for innovation.

Walt Disney was not only a creative genius but also one of the most respected business leaders of the last century. The leadership lessons and core values Disney instilled in his organization are still thriving today.

Disney has achieved leadership success beyond anyone’s imagination. Let Bill Capodagli show you how ...

Now you can learn the inside story behind what makes leaders successful in this inspiring Audio Conference with Bill Capodagli, a Disney expert and co-author of The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company.

When you attend this session, you’ll discover how to establish and manage a creative climate where people and teams are self-motivated. You’ll learn why a short-term mentality creates long-term failures. You'll learn how to foster a fun team atmosphere for your employees — one that energizes their talents and ideas.

Leadership — The Disney Way offers amazing insight into leadership success don’t miss this event!

What’s worked for Disney can work for you. It’s that simple. If you’re ready to take your leadership skills to the next level, you simply can't miss this event. Enroll now.

A Glimpse at Your Agenda …

• Two key elements for managing a creative climate
• The top 3 reasons why people work (besides money) and why they are important to your success as a leader
• How to foster respect and trust among your team
• The key to setting long-term goals — what you must do
• 3 elements of creating a team-focused climate

Meet Your Speaker: The Disney Way Author, Bill Capodagli

A serious student of excellence, Bill Capodagli has a thriving success story of his own. The original edition of The Disney Way, which Capodagli co-wrote, received the coveted “Best Business Book of the Year” award by Fortune magazine and was published in eight languages. He is also the co-author of The Disney Way Fieldbook, which provides action plans for instilling Disney’s vision into any company, complete with diagnostic exercises, practice sessions, proven advice, and insightful questionnaires. Capodagli also co-wrote the popular book Leading at the Speed of Change: Using New Economy Rules to Transform Old Economy Companies.

The prolific best-selling author has nearly three decades of expertise in management consulting and corporate research. As managing partner of Capodagli Jackson Consulting, he brings dynamic managerial experience and graduate-level teaching experience to the firm.

Ever practical, Capodagli’s style is also passionate and hard-hitting. He is currently the most requested speaker in the United States on Walt Disney’s original success and leadership principles. This Audio Conference is a rare opportunity to hear directly from Capodagli.

“This book is about the real magic: Stimulating and harmonizing the collective energy of your people.” — Ken Blanchard, best-selling author of The One Minute Manager