No matter how intensely we desire certainty, we should understand that whether because of our limits or randomness or future unknowable confluences of events, something will inevitably come, unbidden,...
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...
Obligated to be honest somehow
Personally supervised by Walt himself to ensure that as many rooms as possible had windows to let in natural light.
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...
Those of you in management positions, be aware that some of this is going to feel like it’s directed at you personally. I’m not kidding. It’s going to happen. But put your tough skin on, and for the s...
Want to stress that you don’t have to work at Pixar to create a Braintrust. Every creative person, no matter their field, can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of inte...
«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...
This is why it is so frustrating that funding for arts programs in schools has been decimated. And those cuts stem from a fundamental misconception that art classes are about learning to draw. In fact...
A better measure of our success is to look at the people on our team and see how they are working together.
A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Lack of candor, if unchecked, ultimately leads to dysfunctional environments.
ARPA had been created in response to Sputnik, and one of its key organizing principles was that collaboration could lead to excellence.
After talking about it, however, Alvy and I decided to do the opposite—to share our work with the outside world. My view was that we were all so far from achieving our goal that to hoard ideas only im...
And in notes meetings, everyone was so afraid of hurting someone’s feelings that they held back. We had to learn that we weren’t attacking the person, we were attacking the project. Only then could we...
Andrew Stanton spoke next. Andrew is fond of saying that people need to be wrong as fast as they can.
As Joe Ranft said at the time, Better to have train wrecks with miniature trains than with real ones.
As director Brad Bird sees it, every creative organization-be it an animation studio or a record label-is an ecosystem. 'You need all the seasons,' he says. 'You need storms. It's like an ecology. To...
As we try to learn from the past, we form patterns of thinking based on our experiences, not realizing that the things that happened have an unfair advantage over the things that didn’t.
Believe me, you don’t want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or matters of policy are being hashed out.
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.
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