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Sustainable Creativity at Pixar

Ben Fry · by 18 Sept 2008

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  1. Our reading

    In filmmaking and many other complex product development fields, creativity involves many people from different disciplines working together to solve problems.

    Their wordsHowever, in filmmaking and many other kinds of complex product development, creativity involves a large number of people from different disciplines working effectively together to solve a great many problems.

  2. Our reading

    If a good idea is given to a mediocre team, they will fail, but a mediocre idea given to a great team will be fixed or replaced with something that works.

    Their wordsIf you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up; if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something that works.

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