TWN Issue 15: Embracing a "Fractal Bud" in Knowledge

Na Pixar, proteção significa encher as reuniões com protetores de ideias, com pessoas que compreendem o processo difícil e efêmero de desenvolver o novo. Significa dar apoio ao nosso pessoal, porque sabemos que as melhores ideias emergem quando tornamos segura a solução de problemas. (Lembre-se: pessoas são mais importantes do que ideias.) Finalmen

TO UNDERSTAND WHAT the Braintrust does and why it is so central to Pixar, you have to start with a basic truth: People who take on complicated creative projects become lost at some point in the process. It is the nature of things—in order to create, you must internalize and almost become the project for a while, and that near-fusing with the projec

For twenty years, my life had been defined by the goal of making the first computer graphics movie. Now that that goal had been reached, I had what I can only describe as a hollow, lost feeling. As a manager, I felt a troubling lack of purpose. Now what?

Through the years, companies from Polaroid (Why do we have to wait for the picture?) to Pixar (Can animation be cuddly?21) have started with questions.