Book

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace · 2014

A business and organizational leadership book by Pixar's co-founder Ed Catmull that explores principles for building and sustaining a creative culture, drawing on decades of experience at Pixar Animation Studios and lessons learned from managing creative teams.

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What this book knows

Creative organizations stay alive by making candor, failure tolerance, and distributed trust structural—not personal virtues.

Sex: Absent
Work: Primary
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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In fulfilling a goal, I had lost some essential framework. Is this really what I want to do? The doubts surprised and confused me, and I kept them to myself.
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Each participant focused on the film at hand and not on some hidden personal agenda. They argued—sometimes heatedly—but always about the project.
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Sharing problems is an act of inclusion that makes employees feel invested in the larger enterprise. The first conclusions we draw from our successes and failures are typically wrong.
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If you go to its meetings it will change what they are. He agreed, and believing that John and the story people knew more about narrative than he did, he left it to them.
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They exercised a sort of punitive power, seemingly determined that those beneath them not rise in the ranks any faster than they already had.
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mind-and-cognition

The things that happened have an unfair advantage over the things that didn't. We can't see the alternatives that might well have happened if not for some small chance event.
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