Holmes on Creativity, Inc., by Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar, from 2014: a book on the unseen forces that wreck creative companies, whose rule is to loosen the controls, not tighten them. Watson asks for proof; Holmes cites chapter four, Toy Story 2 remade from scratch in nine months, and the lesson: a good idea with a mediocre team is ruined. Lestrade asks what use that is; Holmes: trust people, he says, not processes.
Creativity, Inc., by Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar, published in 2014, argues that creative companies are wrecked by forces their leaders cannot see, that managers must loosen the controls rather than tighten them, and, from the nine-month remake of Toy Story 2 in chapter four, that a good idea given to a mediocre team is ruined while a brilliant team fixes a mediocre idea; his conclusion was to trust people, not processes.
On the book: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull, with Amy Wallace
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Random House · Jan 1, 2014
