2012年2月8日水曜日

Who Invernted Animation?

who invernted animation?

Pixars Young Professional Focus Creates an Amazing Culture

Edwin Catmull is a thin man in his mid-sixties, with a Ph.D., wire-rim glasses, and graying beard. In interviews he comes across as soft-spoken, almost pensive, although one can read years of wisdom behind a kind expression. He is earnest and straightforward, talks patiently, and, in most every way, resembles your favorite college professor.

But Dr. Catmull is not a professor.

He is the President of two of the most powerful and well-respected companies in the world: Disney Animation Studios and Pixar, the company who literally created computer-generated animation.

On September 1, 2008, the Harvard Business Review published an article written by Dr. Catmull entitled How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity. In this article, Catmull states some seemingly backward approaches to bringing in new talent to an organization:


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Successful organizations face two challenges when bringing in new people with fresh perspectives. One is well-knownthe not-invented-here syndrome. The otherthe awe-of-the-institution syndrome (an issue with young new hires)is often overlooked.

The bigger issue for us has been getting young new hires to have the confidence to speak up. To try to remedy this, I make it a practice to speak at the orientation sessions for new hires, where I talk about the mistakes weve made and the lessons weve learned. My intent is to persuade them that we havent gotten it all figured out and that we want everyone to question why were doing something that doesnt seem to make sense to them. We do not want people to assume that because we are successful, everything we do is right.


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How many companies do you know who practice this philosophy? Where the President of the company, first of all, shows up at new employee orientations? And then he doesnt just make an appearance or sit in the back, but stands up and tells stories about company screw-ups, to help reinforce aculture that respects ALL ideas, even if they come from a first-day-on-the-job newbie?

The list of organizations coming to my mind isntvery long.

I watched the documentary film The Pixar Story this weekend (and highly recommend it). As youre surely aware, theres a certain magic about Pixar. What you may not know is that most of the fairy dust resides within their unique cultureand this issomething theyve fought very hard to protect.


There are so many things we can learn from an organization like Pixar, but for today thats all I want to say: great company culture may emerge through serendipity, but it doesnt stay great by accident. Peoplereal people who care enough to put some skin in the gamehave to get involved, stand up, get a little dirty. People like Ed need to do some crazy things.

Dont kid yourself that a great workplace just happens. Like growing a garden, it requires a lot of work and a bit of mess. It takes time and effortand this means having people who have enough time built in to their jobs to actually focus on it. Theres simply no other way to build an amazing work environment.

How many Dr. Catmulls does your company have?

Are you one?

 

 


About the Author: Josh Allan Dykstra is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a collaborative consulting firm specializing in building engaging work environments through strengths philosophy and passion-centric organizational design. His graduate studies with the behavioral scientists at The Gallup Organization and eclectic work background spanning Fortune 500 companies like Apple, Starbucks, and Viacom/CBS to startups, nonprofits, and government agencies give him a unique and incisive expertise into big-picture trends and the future of business. His upcoming book, "Igniting the Invisible Tribe: Designing An Organization That Doesnt Suck", will be released in early 2012. Connect with him online.

 

 



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