«Confía en el proceso». Este nos gustaba porque era muy tranquilizador: aunque es inevitable que surjan dificultades y pasos en falso durante una iniciativa creativa, puedes apostar
The process of coming to clarity takes patience and candor. In
Prescient
Mundo suele ser cruel con el nuevo talento, con las creaciones nuevas. Lo nuevo necesita amigos.»
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...
While Toyota was a hierarchical organization, to be sure, it was guided by a democratic central tenet: You don’t have to ask permission to take responsibility.
Which meant that the people working on Up had to be able to roll with that evolution without panicking, shutting down, or growing discouraged.
When people who run bureaucracies balk at change, they are usually acting in the service of what they think is right. Many of the rules that people find onerous and bureaucratic were put in place to d...
When it comes to creative endeavors, the concept of zero failures is worse than useless. It is counterproductive. To
When a new company is formed, its founders must have a startup mentality—a beginner’s mind, open to everything because, well, what do they have to lose? (This is often something they later look back u...
What’s needed, in my view, is to approach big and small problems with the same set of values and emotions, because they are, in fact, self-similar.
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.
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...
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.
Our short films are Pixar’s way of experimenting, and we produce them in the hopes of getting exactly these kinds of glimpses. Over the years, Pixar has become known for including short films at the b...
My view was that we were all so far from achieving our goal that to hoard ideas only impeded our ability to get to the finish line.
It’s all well and good to gather people to discuss workplace challenges, but it was extremely important that we find a way to turn all that talk into something tangible, usable, valuable. How the day...
If you’re sailing across the ocean and your goal is to avoid weather and waves, then why the hell are you sailing? he says. You have to embrace that sailing means that you can’t control the elements a...