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...
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...
They took comfort in their familiar ways, and change meant being uncomfortable.
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.
That means any outcome is a good outcome, because it yields new information.
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 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...
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...
Originality is fragile. And, in its first moments, it’s often far from pretty.
Lo que creo es que la creatividad consiste precisamente en saber trabajar con el cambio.
If we can constantly change and improve our models by using technology in the pursuit of art, we keep ourselves fresh.
Ideas, though, are not singular. They are forged through tens of thousands of decisions, often made by dozens of people.
IN THINKING ABOUT this chapter and about the limits of our perception, a familiar, oft-repeated phrase kept popping into my head: Hindsight is 20–20. When we hear it, we normally just nod in agreement...
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...
I believe that managers must loosen the controls, not tighten them. They must accept risk; they must trust the people they work with and strive to clear the path for them; and always, they must pay at...
Here’s what we all know, deep down, even though we might wish it weren’t true: Change is going to happen, whether we like it or not. Some people see random, unforeseen events as something to fear. I a...
He told me that he thinks he and the other proven directors have a responsibility to be teachers—that this should be a central part of their jobs, even as they continue to make their own films.
First, it created an electronic suggestion box where Pixar people could submit discussion topics they thought would help us become more innovative and more efficient. Immediately, topic ideas began fl...