Ed Catmull is co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and president of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been honored with five Academy Awards, including the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of computer graphics. He earned a B.S. degrees in computer science and physics and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah. He lives in San Francisco.
发表于2024-05-12
Creativity, Inc. 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
第12章《新的挑战》都在讲皮克斯被迪士尼收购的时候遇到的困境和尴尬局面。 一边读,我就一边想起了2016年,弥漫在朋友圈里滴滴和优步并购产生的情绪。 《新的挑战》中,乔布斯告知约翰拉塞特和艾德卡特姆(皮克斯的两位管理人员)他要把皮克斯卖给迪士尼的时候,两人都惊呆了...
评分原载于“与书俱乐部”(http://yushuclub.com/?p=256) Pixar的创造力是举世公认的。出品一部《玩具总动员》可能是运气,但是在接下来二十年中不断推出叫好叫座的神作则很难再归结为运气。如果你还认为孤证不立,那么Pixar在接管并改造迪士尼动画部门后,迪士尼老掉牙的公主音...
评分 评分原载于“与书俱乐部”(http://yushuclub.com/?p=256) Pixar的创造力是举世公认的。出品一部《玩具总动员》可能是运气,但是在接下来二十年中不断推出叫好叫座的神作则很难再归结为运气。如果你还认为孤证不立,那么Pixar在接管并改造迪士尼动画部门后,迪士尼老掉牙的公主音...
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Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation Studios—into the story meetings, the postmortems, and the “Braintrust” sessions where art is born. It is, at heart, a book about how to build and sustain a creative culture—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.”
For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner twenty-seven Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Now, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques, honed over years, that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable.
As a young man, Catmull had a dream: to make the world’s first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream first as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged an early partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later and against all odds, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the thirteen movies that followed, all of which debuted at #1 at the box office—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and ideas that 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.
• If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
• 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.
• Do not assume that general agreement will lead to change—it takes substantial energy to move a group, even when all are on board.
Advance praise for Creativity, Inc.
“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
书写的非常真诚,对管理者绝对有启发,作者是一个边学习边实践的先锋,皮克斯的大船,因为乔布斯而变得更坚硬,因ED变得更坚定,向伟大的航路出发。最后chapter described a reborn Jobs, it hit me and made me cry.
评分这是一本关于管理的书籍。
评分“The roller coaster came to a stop and a good friend got off, but what a ride we’d taken together. It had been one hell of a trip.”
评分这是一本关于管理的书籍。
评分花了两个月才看完,顺便把Pixar出的动画片都下了一遍,不过目前为止只看完了两部= =
Creativity, Inc. 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书