New Releases by Ed Catmull

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve. “Might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”—Fast Company For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.

A Pixar több mint 20 éve megkerülhetetlen az animációsfilm-készítésben. Könnyed történetmesélés, leleményes cselekményszövés és érzelmi hitelesség – a Pixar filmjei a kreativitás legjobb példái. Olyan közönségsikerek fűződnek a stúdió nevéhez, mint a Toy Story-trilógia, a Szörny Rt., a Némó nyomában, A hihetetlen család vagy a WALL-E, amelyek együttesen 30 Oscar-díjat is begyűjtöttek. Ed Catmull, a Pixar társalapítója és elnöke és a Disney Animation elnöke felfedi a cég hagyományokkal szembeforduló elveit és módszereit, amelyeknek alapelem a kreatív folyamat védelmezése. Elsőként nyújt betekintést a cég működésébe: megtudhatjuk, miként zajlanak a stúdió megbeszélései és a filmek bemutató utáni kiértékelései, valamint az Agytröszt ülései, ahol a filmtörténet számos sikeres alkotása formálódott. A Kreativitás Rt. azoknak a vezetőknek szól, akik beosztottaikkal együttműködve új csúcsokat akarnak meghódítani, ám haszonnal forgathatja bárki, aki eredetiségre törekszik.

Does your organization support creativity—or squash it? If you read nothing else on cultivating creativity at work, read these 10 articles. We''ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you ignite the creative spark across your organization. This book will inspire you to: Discover the elements of creativity and learn how to influence them Harness the creative potential of a diverse team Encourage curiosity and experimentation Avoid breakdowns in creative collaboration Overcome the fear that blocks your innate creativity Bring breakthrough ideas to life This collection of articles includes "Reclaim Your Creative Confidence" by Tom Kelley and David Kelley; "How to Kill Creativity" by Teresa Amabile; "How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity" by Ed Catmull; "Putting Your Company''s Whole Brain to Work" by Dorothy Leonard and Susaan Straus; "Find Innovation Where You Least Expect It" by Tony McCaffrey and Jim Pearson; "The Business Case for Curiosity" by Francesca Gino; "Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life" by Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade; "Collaborating with Creative Peers" by Kimberly D. Elsbach, Brooke Brown-Saracino, and Francis J. Flynn; "Creativity Under the Gun" by Teresa Amabile, Constance Noonan Hadley, and Steven J. Kramer; "Strategy Needs Creativity" by Adam Brandenburger; and "How to Build a Culture of Originality" by Adam Grant. HBR''s 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR''s 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

Transform Your Organization by Scaling Leadership How do senior leaders, in their own words, describe the most effective leaders-the ones that get results, grow the business, enhance the culture and leave in their wake a trail of other really effective leaders? Conversely, how do senior leaders describe the kind of leader that undercuts the organization''s capacity and capability to create its future? This book, based on groundbreaking research, shows how senior leaders describe and develop leadership that works, that does not, that scales, and that limits scale. Is your leadership built for scale as you advance in today''s volatile, uncertain, dynamic, and disruptive business environment? This context puts a premium on a very particular kind of leadership- High-Creative leadership capable of rapidly growing the organization while simultaneously transforming it into more agile, innovative, adaptive and engaging workplace. The research presented in this book suggests that senior leaders can describe the High-Creative leadership with surprising clarity. They also describe with equal precision the High-Reactive leadership that cancels itself out and seriously limits scale. Which type of leader are you? You scale your leadership by increasing the multiple on your leadership in three ways. First, by developing the strengths that differentiate the most effective leaders from the strengths deployed by the most Reactive and ineffective leaders. And second, by increasing your leadership ratio-the ratio of most the effective strengths to the most damaging liabilities. Third, by developing High-Creative leaders all around you. Scaling Leadership provides a proven framework for magnifying agile and scalable leadership in your organization. Scalable leadership drives forward-momentum by multiplying high-achieving leaders at scale so that growth, productivity and innovation increase exponentially. Creative leaders multiply their strengths beyond technical competence by leading in deep relationship, with radical humanity, passion and integrity. Drawing upon decades of solid research and experience enhancing individual capability and collective leadership effectiveness with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, the authors provide an innovative and efficient framework to help you: Take stock of your own personal balance of leadership strengths and weaknesses Scale your leadership in deep relationship and high integrity Proliferate high-achievers throug ...

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Qual a fórmula por trás de filmes adorados por multidões como Toy Story, Monstros S.A. ou Procurando Nemo? Em Criatividade S.A., Ed Catmull conta a trajetória de sucesso do mais importante e lucrativo estúdio de animação da atualidade, a Pixar, que ele ajudou a fundar, ao lado de Steve Jobs e John Lasseter, em 1986. Dos encontros da equipe às sessões de brainstorm, Catmull mostra como se constrói uma cultura da criatividade, num livro definitivo para quem busca inspiração para os próprios negócios. Para Catmull, a tecnologia jamais deve estar acima de uma boa história; cercar-se de gente mais inteligente do que você torna o ambiente mais propenso à inovação; e encontrar o lado positivo do fracasso é fundamental para garantir o próximo sucesso. Esses são alguns dos princípios apresentados por Catmull em Criatividade S.A. Quase 20 anos depois do lançamento do primeiro filme da trilogia Toy Story, Catmull, atual presidente da Pixar e da Walt Disney Animation Studios, narra a trajetória da empresa que revolucionou a indústria de animação cinematográfica. Entremeando conclusões sobre gestão de pessoal com entusiasmadas informações a respeito dos avanços em tecnologia digital, além da história da Pixar e do cinema de animação, Criatividade S.A. apresenta mais do que conselhos de negócios, com trechos descrevendo situações quase como um roteiro cinematográfico.

Für jedes Unternehmen stehen Innovation und Kreativität ganz oben auf der Wunschliste. Doch nur wenige schaffen es, immer wieder Neues zu entwickeln. Pixar ist eines dieser Unternehmen. Die Pixar Animation Studios schreiben seit über 25 Jahren Erfolgsgeschichte mit Blockbustern wie "Toy Story", "Findet Nemo", "Cars" und vielen mehr. Ed Catmull, einer der Gründer von Pixar, gibt in seinem Buch tiefe Einblicke in die Unternehmensführung und das Management dieses außergewöhnlichen Unternehmens. Er zeigt, wie man mit Unsicherheit umgeht, zerstörerische Kräfte überwindet – und warum man viel mehr erreicht, wenn man den Mitarbeitern Freiheit gibt, statt sie zu kontrollieren.