Dr. Ed Catmull, co-founder and president of Pixar Animation Studios, has written a lengthy article for the Harvard Business Review detailing his views on what makes Pixar a successful company . Titled "How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity," the article begins with a meeting between Catmull and the head of a major motion picture studio who claimed that his central problem was not in finding good people, but finding good ideas. In countering this executive's opinion, Catmull details how his formative years in academia and Lucasfilm led to the founding of Pixar, how the risk-averse nature of executives is antithetical to creativity, and how the difficult production of Toy Story ... [read more] ...
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