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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Creativity (with bonus article “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity” by Ed Catmull)

Harvard Business Review, Francesca Gino, Adam Grant, Ed Catmull and Teresa M. Amabile

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Summary

This collection brings together Harvard Business Review articles on creativity at work. Its contents address confidence, curiosity, creative collaboration and the conditions that help people develop and carry through unusual ideas.

Ed Catmull’s contribution is the article How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity. Other articles bring different authors’ approaches to the subject. The anthology therefore places a company participant’s account beside a wider set of arguments about creative work; it is not a single book written by Catmull.

  • SourceHBR creativity anthology — licensed publisher metadata and contents · Harvard Business Review Press, November 2020; bibliographic byline lists Harvard Business Review, Francesca Gino, Adam Grant, Ed Catmull and Teresa M. Amabile. Complete contents/overview inspected. ISBN 9781633699960 is electronic, so no print ISBN is assigned.
  • SourceHow Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity — licensed chapter · Chapter title/byline and public opening identify the Catmull article in this collection; not authorship of the other articles. Direct download returned 403, public web reader supplied licensed excerpt.
  • SourceHBR original anthology listing · Product 10405 exact title names the bonus Catmull article. Current direct page mainly exposes title/navigation; licensed contents establish the rest.

Why read it Our view

For founders organizing creative work, compare the articles on curiosity and collaboration with Catmull’s account of Pixar. Keep each author’s argument distinct when choosing which questions to test with a team.

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  • Ed CatmullAuthor of an article reprinted in the anthology
    The licensed contents and chapter identify Catmull as author of How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity in this collection. This is a partial authored contribution, not his authorship, reading or endorsement of the entire anthology. The 2008 article is a reprint; overlap with his book does not make it a new memoir.
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