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| Genre/Form: | Biographies NonFiction Arts Corporate |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Ed Catmull; Edwin E Catmull |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ed Catmull; Amy Wallace |
| ISBN: | 9780812993011 0812993012 9780593070109 0593070100 |
| OCLC Number: | 851419994 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xvi, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction: Lost and found -- Animated -- Pixar is born -- A defining goal -- Establishing Pixar's identity -- Honesty and candor -- Fear and failure -- The hungry beast and the ugly baby -- Change and randomness -- The hidden -- Broadening our view -- The unmade future -- A new challenge -- Notes day -- Afterword: The Steve we knew -- Starting points: Thoughts for managing a creative culture. |
| Responsibility: | Ed Catmull ; with Amy Wallace. |
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"Many have attempted to formulate and categorize inspiration and creativity. What Ed Catmull shares instead is his astute experience that creativity isn't strictly a well of ideas, but an alchemy of people. In Creativity, Inc. Ed reveals, with commonsense specificity and honesty, examples of how not to get in your own way and realize a creative coalescence of art, business and innovation." * George Lucas * "This is best book ever written on what it takes to build a creative organization. It is the best because Catmull's wisdom, modesty, and self-awareness fill every page. He shows how Pixar's greatness results from connecting the specific little things they do (mostly things that anyone can do in any organization) to the big goal that drives everyone in the company: Making films that make them feel proud of one another." * Robert I. Sutton, Professor of Management Science at Stanford University, author of The No A**hole Rule and co-author of Scaling Up Excellence * "Just might be the best business book ever written" * Forbes Magazine * "Pixar uses technology only as a means to an end; its films are rooted in human concerns, not computer wizardry. The same can be said of Creativity Inc., Ed Catmull's endearingly thoughtful explanation of how the studio he co-founded generated hits such as the Toy Story trilogy, Up and Wall-E. . . . [Catmull] uses Pixar's triumphs and near-disasters to outline a system for managing people in creative businesses-one in which candid criticism is delivered sensitively, while individuality and autonomy are not strangled by a robotic corporate culture" * Financial Times * "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. This book should be required reading for any manager" * Charles Duhigg - Author of THE POWER OF HABIT * Read more...

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- Catmull, Ed.
- Pixar (Firm)
- Creative ability in business.
- Corporate culture.
- Organizational effectiveness.
- Catmull, Edwin E.
- Creativity.
- Organizational Culture.
- Organizational Innovation.
- Pixar Animation Studios.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Leadership.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Business.
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
- Créativité.
- Développement personnel.
- Gestion d'entreprises.
- Innovations.
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Organisationskultur
- Organisationspsychologie
- Management.
- Personeelsmanagement.
- Organisatieontwikkeling.
- Creativiteit.
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