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Review: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration.
Author: Ed Catmull (President of Pixar Animation & Disney Animation)
11 min readApr 21, 2018
“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better…
…The takeaway here is worth repeating: Getting the team right is the necessary precursor to getting the ideas right. It is easy to say you want talented people, and you do, but the way those people interact with one another is the real key. Even the smartest people form an ineffective team if they are mismatched. That means it is better to focus on how a team is performing, not on the talents of the individuals within it. A good team is made up of people who complement each other...Getting the right people…
