Creativity, Inc.
an inspiring look at how creativity can - and should - be harnessed for business success by the founder of Pixar
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THE EXPANDED EDITION
'Just might be the best business book ever written' Forbes Magazine
'This book should be required reading for any manager' Charles Duhigg
'Full of detail about an interesting, intricate business' The Wall Street Journal
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The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands upon his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles used to build Pixar's singularly successful culture, including all he learned in the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve.
For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story quartet, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is.
As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph. D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter. A mere nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie's success-and in the movies that followed-was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar.
Creativity, Inc. has been expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. Featuring a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and new reflections at the end, this updated edition details how Catmull built a culture that doesn't just pay lip service to the importance of things like honesty, communication, and originality, but commits to them. Pursuing excellence isn't a one-off assignment, but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.
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'Incredibly inspirational'
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'Read it and read it again, then read it again and then again'
'Great book!! Fantastic read'
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Finding Nemo. Toy Story. The Incredibles. These wildly successful, award-winning films are all part of the outstanding canon Pixar Animation Studios has produced since its inception in 1986. Pixar co-founder and president Catmull takes us inside the company and its evolution from unprofitable hardware company to creative powerhouse. Along the way, he addresses the challenge of building an effective and enduring creative culture. Punctuated with surprising tales of how the company's films were developed and the company's financial struggles, Catmull shares insights about harnessing talent, creating teams, protecting the creative process, candid communications, organizational structures, alignment, and the importance of storytelling. His own storytelling power is evident as he narrates the company's precarious journey to profitability. Written in an earnest and introspective tone, with the help of Wallace, the book will delight and inspire creative individuals and their managers, as well as anyone who wants to work "in an environment that fosters creativity and problem solving." Catmull's voice and choice of topics reveals him to be a caring, committed, philosophical leader who loves his work, respects his creative colleagues, and remains committed to the advancement of computer animation and great filmmaking.
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Great read!
This story and the things Pixar has achieved touched me and gave me hope for humanity. I’m sure I will return to this book many times for inspiration. I want to live in a society like this.
Very valuable insights for everyone interested in innovation
As a IT manager within a company doing digital commerce, I was very curious about what I will learn in this book. I'm a great fan of most Pixar's movies, and love to watch their making-of documentaries. Additionally, my day-to-day IT work deals a lot with agile developments, hackaton initiative, etc.
And this book is twice meaningful for me. It uncovers a lot of how Pixar is actually working (really amazing and fascinating), but also how similar to a digital company it is, when compared to modern IT and management practices. And that parallel has really struck me.
Ed Catmull has really made a must-read book.