{"id":184,"date":"2011-08-17T02:16:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T02:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2024-07-21T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T20:13:21","slug":"what-can-we-learn-from-pixar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/what-can-we-learn-from-pixar\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can We Learn From Pixar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sims, whose latest book Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries, has written an insightful post on what Google can learn from Pixar. Some of Sims&#8217; observations are worth noting, specifically as they relate to what we all can learn from Pixar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pixar is as close to a constant learning organization as there is, with a proven ability to reinvent and a genuine cultural humility. Google\u2019s founders could learn from Pixar\u2019s founder and president Ed Catmull\u2019s prolonged and determined efforts to counter the natural human reactions to success by aspiring to proactively (and honestly) seek-out and solve new problems constantly, recognizing that he doesn\u2019t have all the answers on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an unbroken string of 11 blockbuster films, Catmull regularly says, \u201cSuccess hides problems.\u201d It\u2019s an insight Google should acknowledge and act on. Google\u2019s leadership admirably tolerates failure on side-projects (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbsfaculty\/2010\/08\/google-wave-decision-shows-str.html\">and big projects as well<\/a>), but what Pixar has that Google does not is a culture where the fear of complacency is a strong motivator, where new problems are identified, discussed, and addressed openly and honestly, all of which requires humility.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No no individual is exempt from this wise caution. Success hides problems. The Bible warns of something similar, &#8220;Every way of a man is right in his own eyes&#8230;&#8221; (Prov. 21:2). May it be said of us that we are well aware of our tendency towards complacency and seek to learn from everyone and everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sims, whose latest book Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries, has written an insightful post on what Google can learn from Pixar. Some of Sims&#8217; observations are worth noting, specifically as they relate to what we all can learn from Pixar: Pixar is as close to a constant learning organization as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[209,208,3],"tags":[10,34,35,323,33,32,240,241],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-digitalstrategy","category-leadership","tag-devotional","tag-ed-catmull","tag-google","tag-leadership","tag-peter-sims","tag-pixar","tag-strategic-lessons-from-pixar","tag-strategy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Y9ZB-2Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21627,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/21627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallifant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}