Careers Night
summary
Pixar explains that concrete practices drive creative success: decision rule to give it more time when a film isn’t working, a culture that tolerates internal disasters so teams don’t operate in fear, and a hiring/education bias toward deep expertise plus broad learning. Claims include finishing every started film except one, an external hit rate near 100 percent despite many internal failures, and a self-assessed error rate of about wrong one third of the time. Management prioritizes emotional connection as the test for whether a film will work.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:01Toy Story
- 3:29Advice for young people
- 4:58How to stay on your path
- 6:30How Ed rediscovered his inspiration
- 9:09How to keep your head when success rate is so high
- 10:44Two major problems along the way
- 11:59Fear of failure
- 12:58Removing the fear
- 13:41Is it killing the movie business
- 14:40Are Millennials different
- 16:30Steve Jobs
- 19:27Eds transformation
- 20:27exciting things at Pixar
