Give them responsibility, let the mistakes happen, and let people fix them. If there is fear, there is a reason—our job is to find the reason and to remedy it. Management’s job is not to prevent risk...
Creativity involves missteps and imperfections. I wanted our people to get comfortable with that idea—that both the organization and its members should be willing, at times, to operate on the edge.
Completamos o inventamos mucho más de lo que pensamos. De lo que estoy tratando de hablar aquí es de los modelos mentales, que desempeñan un importante papel en la percepción del mundo.
Better to have train wrecks with miniature trains than with real ones.
Before we get to the forces that shape that discussion, let’s take a moment to look at things from the filmmakers’ point of view. To a one, they regard these sessions as essential.
Be patient. Be authentic. And be consistent. The trust will come.
Aunque Woody elija finalmente a Andy, lo hace consciente de que con ello se garantiza una tristeza futura. «No puedo impedir que Andy se haga mayor —le dice a Stinky Pete, el buscador de oro—. Pero no...
At Pixar, Toy Story 2 taught us this lesson—that we must always be alert to shifting dynamics, because our future depends on it—once and for all. Begun as a direct-to-video sequel, the project proved...
When our younger employees—those without families—work longer hours than those who are parents, we must be mindful not to compare the output of these two groups without being mindful of the context. I...
In Japanese Zen, that idea of not being constrained by what we already know is called beginner’s mind. And people practice for years to recapture and keep ahold of it.
You suffer through it as you struggle to solve it, but by the end you’ve developed a sort of fondness for it, and you miss it when it is gone.
When you are candid, you are telling people that you trust them and that there is nothing to fear. To confide in employees is to give them a sense of ownership over the information.
When failure occurs, how should you get the most out of it?
When experimentation is seen as necessary and productive, not as a frustrating waste of time, people will enjoy their work—even when it is confounding them.
When a new company is formed, its founders must have a startup mentality—a beginner’s mind, open to everything because, well, what do they have to lose? (This is often something they later look back u...
When Brad Bird was directing The Incredibles, he had a recurring anxiety dream. In this dream, he was driving down a winding and precarious stretch of highway in a rickety old station wagon, with no o...
What makes Pixar special is that we acknowledge we will always have problems, many of them hidden from our view; that we work hard to uncover these problems,
We want people to feel like they can take steps to solve problems without asking permission.
We need to think about failure differently. I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth. But the way most people interpret this assertion is that...
Uncertainty and change are life's constraints. And that's the fun part.