For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you are getting the story right.
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...
During the Lucasfilm years, I definitely had my periods of feeling overwhelmed as a manager, periods when I wondered about my own abilities and asked myself if I should try to adopt a more forceful, a...
Dailies are designed to promote everyone’s ability to be open to others, in the recognition that individual creativity is magnified by the people around you. The result: We see more clearly.
Cuando eres consciente del problema del asa y la maleta lo ves por todas partes. La gente se aferra a las palabras y las historias, que no son más que sustitutos de la acción real y el significado. Lo...
Companies, like individuals, do not become exceptional by believing they are exceptional but by understanding the ways in which they aren’t exceptional.
Candor isn’t cruel. It does not destroy. On the contrary, any successful feedback system is built on empathy, on the idea that we are all in this together, that we understand your pain because we’ve e...
But as always, my focus was on the challenges ahead and on staying true to our goal of recognizing problems early and engaging them fully.
Being confident about the value of our innovation was not enough. We needed buy-in from the community we were trying to serve.
As much as I admire the efficiency of the caterpillar in its cocoon, I do not believe that creative products should be developed in a vacuum (arguably, that was one of the mistakes we made on the film...
A good note says what is wrong, what is missing, what isn’t clear, what makes no sense. A good note is offered at a timely moment, not too late to fix the problem. A good note doesn’t make demands; it...
A better measure of our success is to look at the people on our team and see how they are working together.
A Subdivision Algorithm for Computer Display of Curved Surfaces,
«Hasta que no terminé de dirigir Monstruos S. A. no me di cuenta de que el fallo es una parte saludable del proceso —me dijo—. Durante la realización de esa película yo me lo tomaba como una cuestión...
We start with the attitude that different viewpoints are additive rather than competitive,
Taking a risk necessitated a willingness to deal with the mess created by the risk.
Nosotros mismos acerca de nuestro papel en nuestro éxito. Franqueza, seguridad, investigación, autoevaluación y proteger lo nuevo son todos mecanismos que podemos utilizar para enfrentarnos a lo desco...
Isn’t enough to pick a path—you must go down it.
Any successful feedback system is built on empathy, on the idea that we are all in this together,
You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged. To set up a healthy feedback system, you must remove power dynamics from the equ...