Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812993012 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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He received his Ph.D. She currently serves as editor-at-large at Los Angeles Times magazine. in computer science from the University of Utah. She lives in Los Angeles. Sawyer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of computer graphics. He has been honored with five Academy Awards, including the Gordon E. Amy Wallace is a journalist whose work has appeared in GQ, The New Yorker, Wired, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times
Catmull takes us inside the Pixar ecosystem and shows how they build and refine excellence, in revelatory detail. “Just might be the best business book ever written.”—Forbes“Achieving enormous success while holding fast to the highest artistic standards is a nice trick—and Pixar, with its creative leadership and persistent commitment to innovation, has pulled it off. Pixar’s unrivaled record, and the joy its films have added to our lives, gives his method the most important validation: It works.”—Jim Collins, co-author of Built to Last and author of Good to Great “Too often, we seek to keep the status quo working. Catmull, president of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation, has written wh
Fast Company raves that Creativity, Inc. • Library JournalFrom Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, the Academy Award–winning studio behind Inside Out and Toy Story, comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership—sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. This is a book about breaking it.”—Seth Godin. It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.” For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, WALL-E, and Inside Out, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.Praise for Creativity, Inc.“Over more than thirty years, Ed Catmull has developed methods to root out and destroy the barriers to creativity, to marry creativity to the pursuit of excellence, and,
Great read that applies to Engineers as well as artists Ryan Kapsar This was a fantastic book. It took me a little while to get into reading it. The story of Pixar alone is way more interesting than I ever realized, I never really thought of Pixar as a technology company first and a movie company second, but that's how they started.Ed has some fantastic advice on how to set up and build trust within an organization so that creative (artists, directors, and writers) work well with p. "Interesting history of Pixar" according to MD. The book tries to be a guide to effective management (and encouragement of creativity). What the folks at Pixar accomplished is remarkable and this book provides a nice overview of that. Nothing should diminish that success.However, the book is overlong and the author's hubris wears a bit thin throughout (eg in chapter 9 or so, the author marvels at all the babies that would not have been born among staff members a. bman said not that interesting. started out interesting, but its more of a history of the pixar and a way for the executives to get more money out of people reading their books. don't get me wrong its interesting, but not what I thought I was originally getting into. I ended up switching books and honestly wouldn't recommend it.