Creativity, Inc.

• Great films require both creative mastery and technical excellence.
• Assemble complementary teams with diverse skills like art, animation, directing, writing and technology.
• Collaboration between paradoxical abilities like mastery and beginner's mind yields breakthroughs.
• Avoid silos. Value collective genius over individual brilliance. Help introverts contribute.
• Build a cohesive team united by shared purpose. Diversity powers originality.

To enable candor, build trust and mutual respect first. Question ideas, not people. Reward truth-telling. Make sharing concerns safe.

Authentic feedback, however brutal, aims to achieve excellence. Hear it openly, not defensively. Truth emerges through debate, not blind consensus. Hearing the truth, though hard initially, enables growth.

Prototype to test assumptions faster and cheaper before committing fully. Fail early to succeed faster. Use minimum viable prototypes to validate concepts.

Collect real user feedback. Refine or kill mediocre ideas before over-investing. Move forward based on evidence from prototypes.

View work as never finished, just released. Maintain beginner's mindset for continuous learning.

Evolve creative process constantly. Challenge status quo.

Eliminate silos; enable idea cross-pollination. Compete against yourself, not others.

Vulnerability and questioning lead to innovation.

• Conduct postmortems to reflect on successes, mistakes and key learnings. Prevent recurrence of mistakes.
• Maintain data integrity; record facts. Consider multiple perspectives.
• Identify process improvements. Frame as a learning opportunity, not blame game. Revisit after subsequent projects to gauge effectiveness of fixes.

Enable people to identify deeply with company purpose. Elevate work from job to mission. Connect roles to vision to motivate. Celebrate team accomplishments.

Encourage ambitious organizational goals. Align rewards to team results. Build shared consciousness and commitment beyond titles.