The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends.
There is no growth or success without change. For
This was a success in itself, but it came with an added and unexpected benefit: The act of thinking about the problem and responding to it was invigorating and rewarding. We realized that our purpose...
To Whom it May Inspire, Austin wrote. I, like many of you artists out there, constantly shift between two states. The first (and far more preferable of the two) is white-hot, ‘in the zone’ seat-of-the...
To be honest, I was uneasy about Steve. He had a forceful personality, whereas I do not, and I felt threatened by him. For all of my talk about the importance of surrounding myself with people smarter...
Tom’s team distilled the thousand ideas down to 293 discussion topics. That was still way too many for a single day’s agenda, so a group of senior managers then met and whittled those down to 120 topi...
We are meaning-making creatures
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 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.
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.
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 we are making a movie, the movie doesn’t exist yet. We are not uncovering it or discovering it; it’s not as if it resides somewhere and is just waiting to be found. There is no movie. We are maki...
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?
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.
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...
Candor could not be more crucial to our creative process. Why? Because early on, all of our movies suck. That’s a blunt assessment, I know, but I make a point of repeating it often, and I choose that...
Candor could not be more crucial to our creative process.
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.
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...
In Japanese Zen, that idea of not being constrained by what we already know is called beginner’s mind. And people practice for years to recapture and keep ahold of it.
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