
Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Choose Catmull’s talk for a creative-production management perspective, including the value of seeing problems while they remain small.
Create a path for bad news to arrive early
Management videos are useful when they help explain how a team discovers problems and acts on them. Inspiration and motivational language are weaker tools than a clear picture of incentives, information and decision authority.
Catmull offers a leader’s perspective on keeping creative-company problems visible. Muratori’s Conway’s Law discussion asks how an organization’s structure appears in its software. Choose the first for feedback and leadership; choose the second when communication boundaries seem to have become architectural boundaries. Trace one difficult decision through the people who can notice, authorize and implement a change.

Stanford Graduate School of Business
Choose Catmull’s talk for a creative-production management perspective, including the value of seeing problems while they remain small.

Molly Rocket
Choose The Only Unbreakable Law for an argument about the relationship between organizations and software. Treat its framing as a thesis to examine.
A leader’s retrospective and an architectural argument are not controlled studies of management effectiveness. Test a proposed practice against the actual team and task.
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