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Creativity, Inc.

Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Mykeylynx
Nov 03, 2014Mykeylynx rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull A book: About the start of Pixar, it’s culture, the failures and success. My take away: Transparency candor (the quality of being open and honest in expression; being frank.) this creates real communication and is vital to building Alliances (life long relationships) not mere friendships. Careful who you friend always be aware of what kind of relationships you want to build. When someone gets sick will you be there for them, What kind of friend are you? Failure is part of success. If you are going to fail, fail fast and learn quick. No point in playing the blame game. At Pixar someone used the Unix delete command: rm -f * and 90% of Toy Story was gone. The engineer realized what was going on and quickly pulled the plug on the machine. Outch!!! Oh then the backup was not working the way it should 😭. Luckily one of the employees was working from home and made a weekly copy of all the files and had a backup. Buzz was buzzing again 🙏. It was found to be a waste of time to delve into who done it. Trust your people. The movie made millions and millions of emotions run wild. Without the people there would be no idea of Toy Story. Catmull iterates the point: ideas come from people and people should always be more important than the idea. Pixar treats their people well and in return they have an open and collaborative environment with good communication and ideas. When you have conversations in the hallway about company issues, rather than in meetings, there may be an issue with transparency in the company culture, ya think…