For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you are getting the story right. I
Don’t confuse the process with the goal. Working on our processes to make them better, easier, and more efficient is an indispensable activity and something we should continually work on—but it is not...
Did you arrive early to work because you left on time, planned ahead, and drove carefully? Or were you just in the right place at the right time? Most people would choose the former answer without a s...
But I do believe that Steve’s focus on passion and quality will take us places that we cannot yet perceive. And for that I am truly grateful.
Because your rational mind knows that tunnels have two ends, your emotional mind can be kept in check when pitch blackness descends in the confusing middle. Instead of collapsing into a nervous mess,...
Athletes and musicians often refer to being in the zone—that mystical place where their inner critic is silenced and they completely inhabit the moment, where the thinking is clear and the motions are...
As we try to learn from the past, we form patterns of thinking based on our experiences, not realizing that the things that happened have an unfair advantage over the things that didn’t. In other word...
And those cuts stem from a fundamental misconception that art classes are about learning to draw. In fact, they are about learning to see.)
Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better, even if it seems like a potential threat.
A quien pueda inspirar —escribió Austin en el encabezamiento—. Yo, como muchos de los artistas de esta empresa, me muevo constantemente entre dos estados. El primero (y mucho más preferible de los dos...
A juzgar por lo que aplaudían los empleados de Disney, deduje que nuestras palabras —tal como Steve nos había pedido— no les hicieron sentirse como si hubieran perdido la batalla. Años más tarde pregu...
Was so fundamental to creative work. Employees were spread out over four floors,
The founding of Pixar University and Elyse Klaidman’s mind-expanding drawing classes in particular. Those first classes were such a success—of the 120 people who worked at Pixar then, 100 enrolled—tha...
Puede quedarse con alguien a quien ama, sabiendo que finalmente será descartado, o puede volar a un mundo donde se verá protegido para siempre, pero sin el amor para el que fue hecho. Esta es una auté...
Prescient
Obligated to be honest somehow
It seemed like every issue, big or small, that arose around this time was chalked up to the merger: You said things wouldn’t change! You’re breaking your word! We don’t want to lose the old Pixar! I s...
Failure is a manifestation of learning and exploration. If you aren’t experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it. And, for leaders es...
Cuando se piensa que la experimentación es algo necesario y productivo y no una frustrante pérdida de tiempo, la gente disfrutará de su trabajo, aunque les resulte desconcertante.
A mentoring program that pairs new managers with experienced ones. A key facet of this program is that mentors and mentees work together for an extended period of time—eight months. They meet about al...