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How Pixar Fosters

Collective Creativity

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Pixar

George Lucas Lucas film company

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Pixar

Pixel

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Pixar

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Pixar

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Films

1995 1998 1999 2003 2004

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Films

2006 2007 2008 2009

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Good people is rarer and more

valuable than good ideas The Root of Pixars Culture

Smart people are more important

than good ideas.

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In the case ofToy Story 2

Team A were working

on A bugs Life

Team B worked with

a good initial idea,

but

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If you give a good idea

to a mediocre team,theyll screw it up.

In the case ofToy Story 2

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But if you give a mediocre

idea to a great team, theyll

make it work.

In the case ofToy Story 2

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In the case ofToy Story 2

Team A took over the

creative leadership of

Toy Story 2

Will Woody make a

different choice

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Peer Culture

Brain

Trust

Brain

Trust

TechnologyTechnologyThe

Dailies

Peer

CultureArt

Magic

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Peer Culture

Communication in bathroom

Creation source

A

ccumulateDetail

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Pixars Operating Principles

Communicate

Safe to offer ideas

Close to academic community.

Pixar University

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Management Challenges

When your company is successful, its

difficult to :

Systematically

Fight Complacency

Uncovering

Problems

Routine

Postmortems

To solve these problems

Competitors

Communication

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Goals

Create

Magic

Making the first

computer-animated film

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