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Creativity, Inc.
The book in one sentence
Creative success is less about finding brilliant ideas than about building a culture where good people can be honest, fail safely and keep improving flawed work until it becomes great.
Who it's for
Leaders of any team that has to make new things, from studios and agencies to engineering groups, schools and start-ups, and anyone who wants to understand how Pixar worked from the inside.
The big idea
Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar and later ran Walt Disney Animation Studios as well. He tells the story of how a small group of computer graphics pioneers became the studio behind Toy Story and a long run of hits. His central lesson is that ideas do not arrive fully formed. Every film starts out weak. What makes the difference is a culture that surfaces problems early, tells the truth about them and protects new work while it is still fragile. Managing that culture, he argues, is the real job of a creative leader.
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