Creativity, Inc.

Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace · 2014

Pixar's co-founder on how to build and protect a creative culture, drawing on the studio's own near-failures to show how to keep fear and complacency from killing good ideas.

Catmull built Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter, then spent decades studying a hard question: how do you keep a creative company creative once it succeeds? His answer is a set of hard-won principles about candor, failure, and the unseen forces, fear, ego, hidden problems, that quietly strangle good work. Told through Pixar’s own crises and the making of its films, and later his turnaround of Disney Animation, it is widely regarded as one of the best books on leading creative people, honest about how easily even a great culture can rot.

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