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This book should be required reading for any manager.” -Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit “Achieving enormous success while holding fast to the highest artistic standards is a nice trick-and Pixar, with its creative leadership and persistent commitment to innovation, has pulled it off. “Just might be the best business book ever written.” - Forbes Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.

A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure.

The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.

It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them.

It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks.

If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill-prepared to lead.

But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better.

Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up.

The essential ingredient in that movie’s success-and in the thirteen movies that followed-was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on leadership and management philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his co-founding Pixar in 1986. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired-and so profitable.Īs a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Futures Trading & Digital Currencies (5)įor nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, WALL-E, and Inside Out, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards.