In the intervening years, George has said that he hired me because of my honesty, my clarity of vision, and my steadfast belief in what computers could do. Not long after we met, he offered me the job...
Keep on going, even when things look bleak.
My belief is that good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they’re in.
People who take on complicated creative projects become lost at some point in the process.
Rather than trying to prevent all errors, we should assume, as is almost always the case, that our people’s intentions are good and that they want to solve problems. Give them responsibility, let the...
The Z-buffer accomplished that by assigning a depth to every object in three-dimensional space, then telling the computer to match each of the screen’s pixels to whatever object was the closest.
Una de las tradiciones anuales de la empresa es la Pixarpalooza, un macrofestival en el que nuestras propias bandas de rock luchan por la primacía dejándose el alma en los escenarios que erigimos en e...
Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear. Doing all these things...
Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear.
WHAT IS IT, exactly, that people are really afraid of when they say they don’t like change? There is the discomfort of being confused or the extra work or stress the change may require. For many peopl...
We are striving to tell you something impactful and true. When attempting to make good on that promise, no detail is too small.
We called it Notes Day, and I see it as a stellar example of how to set the table for creativity. Managers of creative companies must never forget to ask themselves: How do we tap the brainpower of ou...
We had learned long ago that while everyone appreciates cash bonuses, they value something else almost as much: being looked in the eye by someone they respect and told, Thank you.
We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to ide...
A conversation with him took you places you didn’t expect. It forced you not just to defend but also to engage. And that in itself, I came to believe, had value.
All those who’d volunteered to be idea advocates were called in to work with Tom and his team to hone their pitches. Then, they began making them to me, John, and our general manager, Jim Morris—and t...
Any successful feedback system is built on empathy, on the idea that we are all in this together,
Desk lamp mascot, through the double doors and into a spectacular glass-ceilinged atrium where a man-sized Buzz Lightyear and Woody, made entirely of Lego bricks, stand at attention, up the stairs pas...
Gathered for a two-day off-site in a rustic cabin, 50 miles north of San Francisco, that often functions as our unofficial retreat center. The place, called the Poet’s Loft, is all redwood and glass—p...
Isn’t enough to pick a path—you must go down it.
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