Sucede el 3 por ciento de las veces, aproximadamente. El 97 por ciento restante me siento frustrado, apurado, como un papel arrugado y tirado en una esquina. Lo importante es seguir luchando sin tregu...
Mundo suele ser cruel con el nuevo talento, con las creaciones nuevas. Lo nuevo necesita amigos.»
Just as individuals have biases and jump to conclusions because of the lens through which they view the world, organizations perceive the world through what they already know how to do.
Candor could not be more crucial to our creative process.
YOU’LL REMEMBER THAT the exit forms filled out by Notes Day participants weren’t shy about asking, Who should pitch this proposal? That was by design—we wanted the best ideas to be pushed forward, not...
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 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...
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 I say that the fate of any group enterprise, and the individuals within it, are interconnected and interdependent, it may sound trite. But it’s not. What’s more, seeing all of the interdependenci...
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 believe that ideas—and thus, films—only become great when they are challenged and tested.
We are meaning-making creatures
Ultimately, what we're after is authenticity. What feels daunting to the filmmakers when John sends them out on such [research] trips is that they don't yet know what they are looking for, so they're...
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...
To understand this first event, you need to know that we rely on Unix and Linux machines to store the thousands of computer files that comprise all the shots of any given film. And on those machines,...
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...
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...
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...
They took comfort in their familiar ways, and change meant being uncomfortable.