~ …we must be open to having our goals change as we learn new information or are surprised by things we thought we knew but didn’t. ~ I often say that managers of creative enterprises must hold lightly to goals and firmly to intentions. ~ Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new (and, as such, should be seen as valuable without them, we’d have no originality). ~ Find, develop, and support good people, and they in turn will find, develop, and own good ideas. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better. ~ If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. ~ Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea. ~ …(Pixar) democratic central tenet: You don’t have to ask permission to take responsibility. The name Pixar came from combining Pixer (which they imagined was a (fake) Spanish verb meaning “to make pictures”, and Radar, which they thought made them sound more high-tech. Here are some of the more interesting highlights: There were so many interesting stories and concepts in this book that I decided to take a look back at my highlighted sections to refresh myself after finishing the book.

One of the things I really enjoy about reading on the Kindle (or Kindle app) is the ability to highlight important passages and then access them later online. It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture-but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.” is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation-into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. was the first book I finished in 2015 in my attempt to read more books this year (its one of my “resolutions”.) 12 books would be a good number, if I can get there. I just finished my second book, Same Kind of Different As Me(and if you happen to be like me and have a passion to help the homeless, this is a terrific book), and I realized I never blogged about Creativity Inc.Ĭreativity, Inc.

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