The key is not being afraid to make mis­takes, but to feel safe mak­ing it and quickly move on—we all know that, but what we for­get most of the time is to *know* when we make such mis­takes and how to fix it. Apple has Steve Jobs, and Disney Pixar has John Lasseter. What about you?

Toy Story 3 direc­tor Lee Unkrich:

The project “wasn’t work­ing at all,” he says, until Lasseter stepped in at the 11^th hour, tore up what was there and rebuilt the story to res­onate with audi­ences, pulling off what many at the stu­dio con­sider Pixar’s best film. (And that was hardly an iso­lated case. “Ratatouille” was repaired much the same way, with “Incredibles” direc­tor Brad Bird over­haul­ing the project late in the game. Lasseter even allowed direc­tor Andrew Stanton to “reshoot” a cou­ple scenes on “Wall-E” — a costly fix rare in animation.)

Lasseter preaches fail-safe phi­los­o­phy — Variety via Twitter/DisneyPixar