Lessons Learned from Pixar
I took Jeff Atwodd’s advice and watched Ed Catmull of Pixar: “Keep your crises small”. A presentation about lessons learned from successes and crises at Pixar.
A central quote:
If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they’ll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they’ll fix it. Or they’ll throw it away and come up with something else.
We think of ‘an idea’ – for movies, for products. It’s usually thought of as some singular thing. But the reality of these successful movies – as with all successful products – that they have got thousands of ideas. It’s all sorts of things necessary to make the film successful. And you have to get most of them right to be successful. That is why you need a team that works well together.
- Coding Horror: Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas (January 2010)
- Ed Catmull, Pixar: “Keep your crises small” (recorded January 2007)
July 21st, 2010 at 20:02 (UTC)
A smart business man here. Succeeding in the business world is extremely hard. Succeeding in the business world for the long term is even more difficult. The competition will be watching you. If your company does not lead the way with innovations, the business will most likely fail. Lead, do not follow. You need good people. In addition, you need good ideas.