How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity Summary

There is a lot that we can learn from Disney’s Pixar movie Inside Out including leadership and group decision making processes. Inside Out is about a young girl named Riley who lives in Minnesota and the five emotions, Fear, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, and Joy, that characterize her. When Riley moves from Minnesota to San Francisco, the emotions must help Riley stay happy and strong with all the changes she has been going through, but the story takes a twist when Joy and Sadness get trapped outside of headquarters, which is where all the emotions are posted. In this paper I reference Inside Out to three Industrial and Organizational Psychology topics including abuse of power, emotions at work, and groupthink.

How Marxist theory is presented in Disney/Pixar films, with a focus on Toy Story 3 and Wall-E.

In both short films “The Present” and “Piper,” Pixar uses actions to showcase that learning from others can help to overcome obstacles. Each character learned from another and conquered their restriction.

Inside Out in a World Turned Upside-Down: The Cultural Work of Pixar’s Latest Motion Picture

"It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better"- Gianni Versace. Competition is what helps build our character and resilience. It is necessary for higher achievement because it builds self-confidence and teaches you life lesson.

Creativity and innovation are necessary in life, whether it is for evolving and adapting to new surroundings or for pulling a company out of a financial crisis, we use our creative abilities and innovate every day. In order to develop and grow the ability to think creatively, one must first understand where these ideas come from and in what environment innovation flourishes. Steven Johnson, Edward Burger, and Michael Starbird suggest change comes from productive thinking and working collaboratively in a group. Effective thinking can be broken down into five essential elements, while working collaboratively in a group setting allows for different views on the topic at hand creating a stronger more defined product or process.

While developing characters and captivating story lines, as expected Disney and Pixar both address parts the life cycle such as death due to its everyday occurrence. Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary defines death as the permanent end of something that is no longer alive : the ruin or destruction of something. The life cycle is defined by dictionary.com as a series of stages, as childhood and middle age, that characterize the course of existence of an individual, group, or culture. As evident within this definition the life cycle contains many parts which include birth, growth from childhood to old age, and then death. The life cycle is the driving force of life but is often misunderstood much like its smaller part, death. The human race

Pixar is a company that has ties to other major corporations in our American culture. Pixar Animation Studios started as a part of the Lucas film computer group, which is owned by George Lucas the creator of Star Wars. However, after receiving funding from Steve Jobs the division became its own corporation in 1986. After that Disney purchased Pixar, which allowed Steve Jobs to become a shareholder in Disney also. With these changes due to the ownership of the corporation an analysis of managerial economics is overdue. What follows is an evaluate how Pixar attains balance between culture, rewards, and boundaries, what is Pixar’s organizational structure and why they have the structure they have, how Pixar’s leadership helps to create an ethical organization, how Pixar’s innovation helps the organization to accomplish its goals, how emotional intelligence helps the leadership guide the company, and how Pixar has overcome barriers to change. Pixar’s history has presented the firm with challenges and the firm has managed to overcome those challenges, anyone who plans to one day own their own business should look at the company and understand how the firm accomplished their tasks despite the presented challenges. The merger with Disney resulted in some problems for Pixar, but the merger was pursued for a reason. By merging, both firm have the potential to save time and money; there is also the potential to learn from each other.

This study examines how leadership, teamwork, and organizational learning can contribute in making mergers and acquisitions work. Our intention is to identify critical factors and practices needed for merger success. Our research is part of an ongoing project, and builds on previous analysis of merger success/failure in such organizations as Standard Oil, Exxon Mobile, and Time Warner-AOL. In this paper, we turn our attention to the recent merger of Pixar and Disney. In our view, the Disney-Pixar case seems to be a good example of a successful merger in progress. This is demonstrated very clearly by recent box office successes such as Academy Award

● Pixar relies heavily on intrinsic motivation to motivate and inspire its employees, which is

Pixar Animation Studios as we know today, was started as in 1984 when John Lasseter, chief creative officer of both Pixar

The demographics of the population that like animation encompasses baby boomers, adults and large numbers of children alike, leads to an improvement in the revenue and exposure for the animation industry (See Exhibit 1 for Percentage of total births). Therefore the social factors are also favorable.

Pixar Animation Studios was founded in 1979, initially specializing in producing state of the art computer hardware (Carlson, 2003). In 1990, due to poor product sales the company diversified from its core business and began producing computer animated commercials for outside companies. Success came for Pixar after the production of its first computer animated film ‘Toy story’ in 1995 (Hutton and Baute, 2007). Since then, Pixar has made many innovative animated feature films, with well known ones including - A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille and WALL-E, six of which are in the top grossing animated

Known to be one of the largest producers of multi-media content, Walt Disney and Pixar greatly impacted the entertainment industry with the use of three-dimensional generated content. It quickly gained popularity with the release of its animated movies and especially got the attention of children from their sequels. With the growing popularity, the competition in the media industry began to increase. Disney was then faced with a difficult decision regarding its relationship with Pixar on whether they should acquire or not acquire the company.

Effective leaders need to be creative and innovative. Effective leaders need to understand that the blood of the organization which they are leading lays innovation and creativity (Swid, 2015). Creation of new ideas can result in programs which are superior to the already planned or established plans. The responsibility of the leadership is to engage appropriate people in the right times, to the appropriate degree but in creative manner. Employee creativity is also enhanced by leaders who are inspirational. Any business