"I loved this book, definitely five stars.

Catmull does a nice job of balancing stories about Pixar, Jobs, and Lassiter with the philosophy of running a creative, forward thinking business.

My big take aways revolve around the second to last chapter titled ""Notes Day,"" which is an activity they implemented at Pixar to overcome the building reluctance of employees to be candid.

Essentially, the philosophy revolves around balancing the structures created to maintain a business and the need to continually evolve those structures and be creative as a business. I like the fact that every business/project must overcome both its initial chaos and inevitable crisis to be successful. No matter how amazing people are, every project will deal with both chaos and crisis at some point; how we handle those elements define the business and success."