Our acquisition of Marvel three years later combined Marvel's strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters with Disney's creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and an integrated business structure that maximizes the value of creative content across multiple platforms and territories.
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But history has shown over and over again the value of creative destruction and disruptive innovation.
Most of the value, though, emerges from a creative rethink of the business playscript, for it holds the key to value generation at the business level.
As Evans, Burnett and others continue to develop the field of design into something of far greater value than aesthetics, the creative commitment and creative confidence of a good designer already has much to teach an aspiring manager or even a midcareer person contemplating a whole new life.
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Lastly, systematic theft is the ultimate predatory practice in that it unlawfully destroys the value of any innovation or creative advantage a competitor may have.
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Speaking of the Superior Approach, this article has also reminded me of Pete Williams, the man who Rich Schefren (a well established internet marketer) called the man who has invented the Superior Approach to cashing in on your creative, high value content based on super effectively leveraging your time, your team and the modern internet marketing technologies.
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Where once a very clever, hard working Seth McFarlane (creator of Family Guy) had to hardscrabble with networks to achieve distribution, and live in fear of a single person controlling his destiny, in the future these creative people will be able to own their content and capture the value directly as they build a direct audience.
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But more importantly, they know that in order to ignite the creative spark that gets teams to produce value, they must build a culture and value system that treats the individual with respect.
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The earlier mentioned Fast Company article suggests that the way to capture higher value is for creative strategists to evolve from story-tellers to story-builders, meaning they curate, participate, and add to never-ending story-lines in co-creation with the end individuals.
And one thing I just want to be clear on is we actually believe in the creative destruction of markets as well when the net value for the poor is positive.
They are more likely to value the possibility for growth, advancement, and creative expression at least as much as their monetary compensation.
Having good art is an amazing opportunity to teach them the value of living with good things and appreciating the creative process behind the actual work of art.
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Businesses like Google, Zappos, and IBM have been household names as great places to work because they value the free flow of ideas and innovations that prioritize creative talent rather than traditional hierarchical social status.
Of course, our most important resource is you: the thousands of creative, passionate and committed Yahoos who are executing our strategies to deliver value for users, advertisers, publishers--and stockholders.
If we really want to see things change and try to create a drop in the worrying crime statistics we read about, we have to replace and re-learn the value of individuals, implementing the right resources and support for the effective, creative and motivating youth work that is beginning to hit our streets but so often is unseen.
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More than that, fashion is just the sort of thing Britain is supposed to be good at in this post-industrial age: creative, high-value-added, cluster-based.
"We at TopCoder are thrilled to be again working with Harvard and NASA to provide creative and inventive support of NTL's mission to deliver critical solutions while recognizing the need to return high taxpayer value, " said Rob Hughes, President and COO of TopCoder, Inc.
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