Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

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THE EXPANDED EDITION

'Just might be the best business book ever written' Forbes Magazine
'This book should be required reading for any manager' Charles Duhigg
'Full of detail about an interesting, intricate business' The Wall Street Journal
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The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands upon his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles used to build Pixar's singularly successful culture, including all he learned in the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve.

For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story quartet, Finding Nemo , The Incredibles , Up , and WALL-E , which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty 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.

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. A mere nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie's success-and in the movies that followed-was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar.

Creativity, Inc. has been expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. Featuring a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and new reflections at the end, this updated edition details how Catmull built a culture that doesn't just pay lip service to the importance of things like honesty, communication, and originality, but commits to them. 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.
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Readers love Creativity, Inc.

'Incredibly inspirational'
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'Honestly, one of the best books I've read in a long time'
' Read it and read it again, then read it again and then again '
'Great book!! Fantastic read'

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Library Journal Review

Catmull (cofounder, Pixar Animation Studios) here presents his ideas for the ways managers can foster a creative culture that will help employees achieve their best. While Catmull suggests various management strategies and approaches that have been highlighted in numerous other works, he also shares fascinating details about how he and others successfully created Pixar Animation, a company that has had a profound impact on the animation business. Catmull shares some of his beginnings, including being originally recruited in 1979 by George Lucas to help work special effects images into live-action footage and the hiring of John Lasseter, a former Disney animator who helped executives understand that high-quality animation means little unless you get the story right. The author also shares his inside perspective on Steve Jobs buying the Pixar unit from Lucasfilm, the first three-picture Disney deal, and the 2006 Disney purchase of Pixar. Narrator Peter Altschuler's distinctive voice beautifully conveys the information. VERDICT This work retreads exemplary leadership advice while revealing fascinating insights into arguably the best animation studio in the world.-Dale Farris, Groves, TX (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.