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Dec 2023
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Pixar’s Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules

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There's no perfect process for achieving your goals. Accepting that the rules you play by need to be constantly tweaked, hacked or reinvented will open you up to new ways of innovating. Instilling this attitude throughout your organization will help you be boldly differential in your experimentation.Ed Catmull literally wrote the book on creating a dynamic a ... Show More
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