Under the Watchful Eye of Steve Jobs Lies Brad Bird's Army

We’re still pretty worn out from just having returned to semi-normalcy, so here’s just a little bit of interesting to end this writer’s day upon. Making the rounds lately is Pixar‘s Brad Bird talking to The McKinsey Quarterly, discussing how he manages such gigantic teams of designers, engineers, tech people, etc. and still retaining a quality product. Although the McKinsey site itself requires registration and all that, Gigaom has a nice rundown/synopsis of the whole thing, hitting on nine key lessons Bird brings to the table.