Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small

Why HN readers recommended it

Repeatedly called one of the most useful talks on building organizations and managing creative teams.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Topic

creative leadership and organizations

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

9

HN mentions in dataset

14

Recommendation years in dataset

2010–2017

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• fantastic business talk by Ed Catmull (pixar co-founder) at Stanford [VIDEO] btw: I find it hard to believe that Toy Story 3 could be any good (because of the "3"). Is it?

• I believe Ed Catmull refers to this as 'keeping your crises small.' That is to say, it's much better to actively surface problems before they leave the shop than it is to ship with issues, and try to deal with implosions after the fact (ahem, …

• Keep Your Crises Small, [VIDEO] It's a lecture from Ed Catmull. I highly recommend it, many gems from a brilliant developer turned brilliant manager.