Where, along the way, do we turn from the wide-eyed child into the adult who fears surprises and has all the answers and seeks to control all outcomes?
When it comes to creative endeavors, the concept of zero failures is worse than useless. It is counterproductive. To
When filmmakers, industrial designers, software designers, or people in any other creative profession merely cut up and reassemble what has come before, it gives the illusion of creativity, but it is...
We realized that our purpose was not merely to build a studio that made hit films but to foster a creative culture that would continually ask questions.
We had done the impossible. We had done the thing that everyone told us we couldn't do. And we had done it spectacularly well.
We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.
This was a critical decision that was not obvious to most people. Most people assumed that Pixar would do 3D movies and Disney would do 2D. Or
The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends.
The uncreated is a vast, empty space. This emptiness is so scary that most hold on to what they know, making minor adjustments to what they understand, unable to move on to something unknown.
The models of three-dimensional objects that we carry in our heads have to be general; they must represent all variations of the given objects.
The key to preventing this is balance. I see the give and take between different constituencies in a business as central to its success. So when I talk about taming the Beast, what I really mean is th...
The Art of Animation
Steve understood the value of science and law, but he also understood that complex systems respond in nonlinear, unpredictable ways. And that creativity, at its best, surprises us all.
So when problems arise—and they always do—disentangling them is not as simple as correcting the original error. Often, finding a solution is a multi-step endeavor.
So my colleagues know more than I do about what’s going on in any given department at any given moment. On the other hand, I know more about issues that people working in production do not: schedule r...
Pero la facilidad no es la meta; la excelencia sí lo es.
People talking directly to one another, then letting the manager find out later, was more efficient than trying to make sure that everything happened in the right order and through the proper channels...
One of the most crucial responsibilities of leadership is creating a culture that rewards those who lift not just our stock prices but our aspirations as well.
Lo que creo es que la creatividad consiste precisamente en saber trabajar con el cambio.
I often say that managers of creative enterprises must hold lightly to goals and firmly to intentions. What does that mean? It means that we must be open to having our goals change as we learn new inf...