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Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
xxi, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the publication of the bestselling book The Artists' Way, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan, co-creators of the country's most successful course on creativity, were often told that their techniques helped people achieve their business goals. This spurred them to refine the methods to help people perform more creatively and effectively at work. The program is revealed in The Artists' Way at Work: a twelve-week encounter with your own ingenuity, struggles,...
Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xvii, 326 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
There is a paradox. As children, most of us think we are highly creative; as adults many of us think we are not. What changes as children grow up? Organizations across the globe are competing in a world that is changing faster than ever. They say they need people who can think creatively, who are flexible and quick to adapt. Too often they say they can't find them. Why not? In this provocative and inspiring book Ken Robinson addresses three questions:...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Originals Adam Grant addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all? Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea,...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
MP3-CD sound disc (7 hr., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Harvard Business Review looked at 300 of the most creative, successful executives in business and found that they shared a number of tendencies and characteristics, but one stood out at the top of the list -- they all were master questioners. It's not necessity, but a question -- a "beautiful" question -- that is the mother of invention. The world's leading innovators, inventors, business entrepreneurs, and creative minds, seem to be exceptionally...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xii, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
A book that argues that lessons in creativity, innovation, salesmanship, and entrepreneurship can come from surprising places: pirates, bootleggers, counterfeiters, hustlers, and others living and working on the margins of business and society. Who are the greatest innovators in the world? You're probably thinking Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford. The usual suspects. This book isn't about them. It's about people you've never heard of. It's about...
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