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This is a great talk and I recommend you watch it. Here are the cliff notes. - Constantly review - People and how they function are more important than ideas
by jeremyw 17y ago
This is a great talk and I recommend you watch it. Here are the cliff notes.
- Constantly review
- People and how they function are more important than ideas; ideas come as a result
- Do not let success mask problems, do deep assessments
- Organizations fall over by default, slowly enough that you don't notice it
- Everything you do has to be original, you can't repeat yourself, dig deeper, you're always missing something important
What strikes me is how they've internalized successive originality in each project. The latter half of their repetoire is something new in animation: Wall*E, Ratatouille, The Incredibles.
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- dennisgorelik 17y agoCorrection: -- Organizations fall over by default, slowly enough that you can fix them if you care. -- Ed did NOT say that because organization fall slowly it's hard to notice. He implied that you have time to fix the failure... you just have to put conscious effort to notice the problem and then another effort to fix it (while organization is still successful overall).
- jeremyw 17y agoHe says "... organizations are inherently unstable, they will fall over, you have to work to keep them upright, but they fall slowly, most people don't notice it, they let success blind them." -- roughly minute 34. I wouldn't want to misparaphrase him, but I think my notes are accurate.