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| 5dc8324 | Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. If you get the team right, chances are that they'll get the ideas right. * | Ed Catmull | ||
| 529f6db | Here's what turns a successful hierarchy into one that impedes progress: when too many people begin, subconsciously, to equate their own value and that of others with where they fall in the pecking order. Thus, they focus their energies on managing upward while treating people beneath them on the organizational chart poorly. The people I have seen do this seem to be acting on animal instinct, unaware of what they are doing. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 9ac77f2 | Steve used aggressive interplay as a kind of biological sonar. It was how he sized up the world. | Ed Catmull | ||
| bbfc747 | Among the things he learned: John was so tightly scheduled, and meetings with him were so precious, that people tended to overprepare to see him, which served no one. In fact, John said, "there were a lot of notes about my time management, and how I carry the emotion of one meeting into the next, making some people ask, 'Why is he upset at us?' I didn't know I was doing any of this, and those two-and-a-half pages were really tough to read. .. | Ed Catmull | ||
| c6431ba | Careful "messaging" to downplay problems makes you appear to be lying, deluded, ignorant, or uncaring. Sharing problems is an act of inclusion that makes employees feel invested in the larger enterprise. *" | Ed Catmull | ||
| 8c410d0 | Once, after one of our special effects software guys resigned, he wrote me an email containing two complaints. First, he said, he didn't like that his job involved cleaning up so many little problems caused by the new software. Second, he wrote, he was disappointed that we weren't taking more technical risks in our movies. The irony was that his job was to help solve problems that arose precisely because we were taking a major technical ris.. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 88636c9 | There is nothing quite as effective, when it comes to shutting down alternative viewpoints, as being convinced you are right. | Ed Catmull | ||
| b65bc8d | But in 1947, an American working in Japan turned that thinking on its head. His name was W. Edwards Deming, and he was a statistician who was known for his expertise in quality control. At the request of the U.S. Army, he had traveled to Asia to assist with planning the 1951 Japanese census. Once he arrived, he became deeply involved with the country's reconstruction effort and ended up teaching hundreds of Japanese engineers, managers, and.. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 2935226 | In general, I have found that people who pour their energy into thinking about an approach and insisting that it is too early to act are wrong just as often as people who dive in and work quickly. The overplanners just take longer to be wrong | Ed Catmull | ||
| e50ede7 | Confia en el proceso>>. Este nos gustaba porque era muy tranquilizador: aunque es inevitable que surjan dificultades y pasos en falso durante una iniciativa creativa, puedes apostar | Ed Catmull | ||
| f4efecb | Mistakes aren't a necessary evil. They aren't evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new | Ed Catmull | ||
| e8592c4 | 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. | Ed Catmull | ||
| ad9bef4 | They took comfort in their familiar ways, and change meant being uncomfortable. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 4006d1e | In graduate school, I'd quietly set a goal of making the first computer-animated feature film, and I'd worked tirelessly for twenty years to accomplish it. | Ed Catmull | ||
| fcc8834 | Even the smartest people can form an ineffective team if they are mismatched. That means it is better to focus on how a team is performing, not on the talents of the individuals within it. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 4e537b9 | puede quedarse con alguien a quien ama, sabiendo que finalmente sera descartado, o puede volar a un mundo donde se vera protegido para siempre, pero sin el amor para el que fue hecho. Esta es una autentica eleccion, una cuestion real. | Ed Catmull | ||
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| fdff5b8 | we start with the attitude that different viewpoints are additive rather than competitive, | Ed Catmull | ||
| 9e7c749 | Most people have heard of the Eastern teaching that it is important to exist in the moment. It can be hard to train yourself to observe what is right now (and not to bog down in thoughts of what was and what will be), but the philosophical teaching that underlies that idea--the reason that staying in the moment is so vital--is equally important: Everything is changing. All the time. And you can't stop it. And your attempts to stop it actual.. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 29c08ac | By resisting the beginner's mind, you make yourself more prone to repeat yourself than to create something new. The attempt to avoid failure, in other words, makes failure more likely. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 2d31e54 | easy isn't the goal. Quality is the goal. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 6dac0e0 | If one looks at creativity as a resource that we continually draw upon to make something from nothing, then our fear stems from the need to make the nonexistent come into being. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 589c030 | 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. | Ed Catmull | ||
| a2ced03 | The seating arrangements and place cards were designed for the convenience of the leaders, including me. Sincerely believing that we were in an inclusive meeting, we saw nothing amiss because we didn't feel excluded. Those not sitting at the center of the table, meanwhile, saw quite clearly how it established a pecking order but presumed that we--the leaders--had intended that outcome. Who were they, then, to complain? | Ed Catmull | ||
| 556aa1b | Philip Glass once said, "The real issue is not how do you find your voice, but ... getting rid of the damn thing." | Ed Catmull | ||
| 5a29162 | And those cuts stem from a fundamental misconception that art classes are about learning to draw. In fact, they are about learning to see.) | Ed Catmull | ||
| e82c917 | The unpredictable is the ground on which creativity occurs. | Ed Catmull | ||
| acac2bb | Some people make the mistake of thinking that they are being mindful because they are focusing diligently on problems. But if they are doing so while subconsciously bound up with their worries and expectations, with no awareness that they can't see clearly or that others may know more, they aren't open at all. | Ed Catmull | ||
| e58dbd8 | The good stuff was hiding the bad stuff. I realised that this was something I needed to look out for: When downsides coexist with upsides, as they often do, people are reluctant to explore what's bugging them, for the fear of being labeled complainers. | Ed Catmull | ||
| aca4109 | I said before that problems are easy to identify, but finding the source of those problems is extraordinarily difficult. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 59c54f0 | listen to the stories of professionals who have been making films for decades going through the same slings and arrows of outrageous production problems. In a word: PERSIST. PERSIST on telling your story. PERSIST on reaching your audience. PERSIST on staying true to your vision.... | Ed Catmull | ||
| ab1742c | 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. | Ed Catmull | ||
| bacc317 | We face hundreds of challenges, every day, in our lives. The majority hardly qualify as challenges | Ed Catmull | ||
| 488ab53 | We frequently support the idea of pushing boundaries in theory, ignoring the trouble it can cause in practice. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 7b70e8b | 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. | Ed Catmull | ||
| d28546a | 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 past sketches and paintings of the characters that have populated our fourteen | Ed Catmull | ||
| 1f6dba7 | Your employees are smart; that's why you hired them. So treat them that way. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 032716b | People who take on complicated creative projects become lost at some point in the process. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 545a0ad | 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 craft without art. Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of our craft. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 9372fa9 | I believe that no creative company should ever stop evolving, and this would be our latest attempt to avoid stagnation. | Ed Catmull | ||
| be88edc | Left to their own devices, most people don't want to fail. But Andrew Stanton isn't most people. As I've mentioned, he's known around Pixar for repeating the phrases "fail early and fail fast" and "be wrong as fast as you can." He thinks of failure like learning to ride a bike; it isn't conceivable that you would learn to do this without making mistakes--without toppling over a few times. "Get a bike that's as low to the ground as you can f.. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 055cd4d | Keep on going, even when things look bleak. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 856d69e | One of the most crucial responsibilities of leadership is creating a culture that rewards those who lift not just our stock prices but our aspirations as well. | Ed Catmull | ||
| c9c64e0 | real | Ed Catmull |