Ed Catmull cofounded Pixar Animation Studios and led it throughout its ascendency and ultimate acquisition by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. Catmull, who retired in 2019, is considered one of the most successful leaders in any creative industry. Key to Pixar’s success is what he calls developing a Braintrust, or a group of people with whom you can regularly meet to help you identify problems and give you candid feedback. This Braintrust is “an enormously beneficial and efficient entity,” Catmull writes in his memoir, Creativity, Inc. “Even in its earliest meetings, I was struck by how
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