Toy Story 2 was a case study in how something that is usually considered a plus—a motivated, workaholic workforce pulling together to make a deadline—could destroy itself if left unchecked.

instead of having everyone working on the same feature, the group would break up into project teams and work on several films simultaneously. The latter decision was a particularly shrewd one. Disney has no competition, really, so how does it achieve that sense, so typical of Great Groups, of being a winning underdog? According to Peter Schneider,