“Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover.” — Ed Catmull Leader Copy Share Image
“Fear of change—innate, stubborn, and resistant to reason—is a powerful force.” — Ed Catmull Fear Copy Share Image
“You’ll never stumble upon the unexpected if you stick only to the familiar.” — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“the process of coming to clarity takes patience and candor. In” — Ed Catmull Clarity Copy Share Image
“was so fundamental to creative work. Employees were spread out over four floors,” — Ed Catmull Creative work Copy Share Image
“Companies, like individuals, do not become exceptional by believing they are exceptional but by understanding the ways in which they aren’t exceptional.” — Ed Catmull Business Copy Share Image
“The Braintrust is valuable because it broadens your perspective, allowing you to peer—at least briefly—through others’ eyes. Brad” — Ed Catmull Perspective Copy Share Image
“What’s needed, in my view, is to approach big and small problems with the same set of values and emotions, because they… — Ed Catmull Small problems Copy Share Image
“We must remember that failure gives us chances to grow, and we ignore those chances at our own peril.” — Ed Catmull Failure Copy Share Image
“The Hidden—and our acknowledgement of it—is an absolutely essential part of rooting out what impedes our progress:” — Ed Catmull Acknowledgement Copy Share Image
“Not the confidence that we know exactly what to do at all times but the confidence that, together, we will figure it… — Ed Catmull Confidence Copy Share Image
“If you don’t try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.” — Ed Catmull Leader Copy Share Image
“THERE IS NOTHING quite like ignorance combined with a driving need to succeed to force rapid learning.” — Ed Catmull Ignorance Copy Share Image
“By ignoring my fear, I learned that the fear was groundless. Over the years, I have met people who took what seemed… — Ed Catmull Fear Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you talk about the problems in fifty different ways until you find that one sentence that you can see makes their… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“If all our careful planning cannot prevent problems, then our best method of response is to enable employees at every level to… — Ed Catmull Confidence Copy Share Image
“Steve Jobs was quite aware of this story and used to repeat it to people at Apple, adding that he never wanted… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“• Change and uncertainty are part of life. Our job is not to resist them but to build the capability to recover… — Ed Catmull Art of life Copy Share Image
“Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new (and, as such,… — Ed Catmull Creativity Copy Share Image
“Our mental models aren’t reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters use to predict the weather. But, as we know… — Ed Catmull Psychology Copy Share Image
“That’s because success convinces us that we are doing things the right way. There is nothing quite as effective, when it comes… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“For many people, changing course is also a sign of weakness, tantamount to admitting that you don’t know what you are doing.… — Ed Catmull Changing course Copy Share Image
“Andrew Stanton says, adding that on each of his own films, he has made a point of doing this on a smaller… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“In any creative endeavor, there is a long list of features and effects that you want to include to nudge it toward… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“If we can agree that it’s hard, if not impossible, to get a complete picture of what is going on at any… — Ed Catmull Business Copy Share Image
“The other principle we depended on was “Trust the Process.” We liked this one because it was so reassuring: While there are… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“Here’s what we all know, deep down, even though we might wish it weren’t true: Change is going to happen, whether we… — Ed Catmull Beauty of life Copy Share Image
“The principle I’m describing here—iterative trial and error—has long-recognized value in science. When scientists have a question, they construct hypotheses, test them,… — Ed Catmull Experiment Copy Share Image
“we seek what we think are simple explanations for events in our lives because we believe the simpler something is, the more… — Ed Catmull Randomness Copy Share Image
“I heard a delightful—and possibly apocryphal—story about what happened when the British introduced golf to India in the 1820s. Upon building the… — Ed Catmull Golf Copy Share Image
“FOR MOST OF us, failure comes with baggage—a lot of baggage—that I believe is traced directly back to our days in school.… — Ed Catmull Failure Copy Share Image
“Many fear this side of the door. We crave stability and certainty, so we keep both feet rooted in what we know,… — Ed Catmull Certainty Copy Share Image
“Rather than trying to prevent all errors, we should assume, as is almost always the case, that our people’s intentions are good… — Ed Catmull Beauty Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been intrigued, for example, by the way that many people use the analogy of a train to describe their companies.… — Ed Catmull Fitness Copy Share Image
“When it comes to creative endeavors, the concept of zero failures is worse than useless. It is counterproductive. To” — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“Failure isn’t a necessary evil. In fact, it isn’t evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new.” — Ed Catmull Failure Copy Share Image
“Making the process better, easier, and cheaper is an important aspiration, something we continually work on—but it is not the goal. Making… — Ed Catmull Dreams Copy Share Image
