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zmb_ · 2015-06-01
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Ed Catmull, Co-Founder of Pixar, wrote a great book about building and running creative businesses in general, and Pixar in particular[1]. Well worth a read.
[1]http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspi...
mmcconnell1618 · 2015-05-10
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Try taking power away from the reviewer to disarm the defense reaction. In Ed Catmul's Creativity, Inc.
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0812993012/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=...)
he describes the Pixar "brain trust" which reviews early progress on movies with the director. They found directors would get defensive if they felt someone more powerful was telling them to make specific changes. Once they set some rules like "the director decides what, if anything gets changed" and "talk about what's not working but don't solve the problem for the director" things improved. Now instead of film veterans telling you your movie (code) stinks it becomes about opportunities to make things awesome.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Facilitation-Essentials-Meetings-... https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Insp... https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fab... https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Fac... https://www.amazon.com/Communication-featured-Necessary-Pers...