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D and his Thinking Heads is an illustrated, delightfully written parable about "D" and how he regained his Business Creativity. This 10 minute read will quickly show you the secrets for Business Survival. Casting aside the old left-right brain metaphor, it explains how to put on your Creativity Head to get crucial Ideas.
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D and his Thinking Heads, 45 pages
David M Weeks (2007)
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Sex, Leadership and Rock and Roll
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Fellow MBA lecturer and friend, Peter Cook has just launched a metaphorical book on leadership, provocatively titled Sex, Leadership and Rock and Roll. Peter has subtly blended his experience as a business creativity consultant and rock musician to create a new take on Leadership through the metaphor of Rock and Roll.
Read an extract
Get the book at the Academy of Rock.
Sex, Leadership, Rock 'n Roll
- Peter Cook (March, 2006)
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 1845900162
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Orbiting the Giant Hairball
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"If you go to your grave
without painting
your masterpiece,
it will not
get painted.
No one else
can paint it.
Only you."
Gordon McKenzie
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I loved this book by the late Gordon McKenzie. Creativity is crucial to business success, but too often, organizations quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past.
Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, and inspired his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy and rise to orbit, beyond the rubber-stamp confines of the administrative mind-set.
A story of professional evolution, together with lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius.
Orbiting the Giant Hairball:
A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace (1996) -
Gordon MacKenzie
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 067087983-5
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A great book - read from start to end. The Creative Brain is a personal journey by the late Ned Herrmann to help people understand their own mental makeup and know how to use it effectively. It moves on from left-right brain model to a sensible physiological based four quadrant model. Make sure you take the Hermann Brain Dominance Profile (HBDP), Could give you insights on how you tick!
The Creative Brain
- Ned Herrmann (September 1, 1989)
Publisher: Ned Herrmann Group
ISBN: 0944850022
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Hare Brained Tortoise Mind
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An intriguing book by Professor Guy Claxton a leading thinker on creativity, learning and the brain.
It suggests that our 'intelligence' increases when we think less and relax, stop striving for answers, or even clarity, loosen control and allow our minds to drift. But we know that our culture prefers thinking which is more interested in finding answers and solutions than in examining the questions; which treats perception as unproblematic. So, go slower and get there faster - it works!
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind:
Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
Guy Claxton
Paperback 272 pages (May 21, 1998)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 1857027094
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A peacock in the Land of Penguins
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Organisations need diversity in their staff to survive. If we were all penguins, we do what penguins do and lose our uniqueness in a land of penguins. I like metaphors and this creatively presented book written like a pictorial poem can be read in half an hour. (I'm a slow reader!). Make sure you have people at work who don't fit in - they will provide you with the creative dissonance that you need to survive. But protect them - the organisations' immune system will try frantically to kill and remove them.
A Peacock in the Land of Penguins: A Tale of Diversity and Discovery - Barbara "BJ" Hateley, Warren H. Schmidt, Sam Weiss
(February 1995)
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc
ISBN: 1881052710
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This book gave me the impetus to start acting as a Fool! within the Bank where I worked. And it was very visible, using the company Intranet, getting 'retired' after a year. So beware! Career limiting moves likely.
The Corporate Fool! paints a picture of this role that organizations sadly lack, and which they desperately need. In the same theme as Peacocks above.
The Corporate Fool:
Doing the Undoable, Thinking the Unthinkable, Saying the Unsayable and Driving Your Sensible Organization Mad with Creative Folly - David Firth, Alan Leigh
Paperback 208 pages (March 1998)
Publisher: Capstone Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1900961512
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
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Excellent book. If you can't draw and want to, then buy it. It's your left brain hemisphere that's causing the problem interfering with the natural skills of your artistic right side. So what you have to do is get it to give up by confusing it! The same underlying concept is stopping you being creative at work - if you evaluate rather than brainstorm its that darned left hemisphere getting in the way again. Anyway, the book - tried technique one on my wife and her drawing improved within a day. You will be drawing artistically in a few days or less.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain:
A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence
by Betty Edwards - the Newer version is now available.
Paperback: 254 pages
Publisher: J. P. Tarcher; Revised edition (June 1989)
ISBN: 0874775132
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Techniques of Structured Problem Solving
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This was the set book for the Open
University, Creativity, Innovation and Change course. It does exactly what
it says on the cover and is packed with techniques giving an evaluation of
each. I still have three copies! It is a seriously invaluable resource,
professionally written. Dip into it whenever you are looking for a
different technique, but beware - Arthur's research has uncovered over
100!.
Techniques of Structured Problem Solving Arthur
VanGundy Print on
Demand (Hardcover) 404 pages (September 9, 1998) Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc ISBN: 0442288476
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Creativity, Innovation, and Quality
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Paul kindly gave me a copy of his book
several years ago. He is a Quality Consultant and this book illustrates
the practical approach that Paul uses for Creativity and Innovation in
business. Paul has developed his own serious framework called "directed
creativity". You will see more on this in the tactics section of "Mental
Athletics programme". I like the style of the book, based on real life
examples of Paul's work. Professional.
Creativity, Innovations and Quality
Paul E. Plsek
Paperback 316 pages (July 1997)
Publisher: Irwin
ISBN: 0873894049
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Michaels' book is an excellent one on techniques and other creative stuff. I have the book on my shelf and so liked his tale of Leonardo's grotesque heads and how he might have come up with so many, that I have included this approach (morphological Analysis) in my techniques notebook. This book covers familiar ground, combining depth with an easy read.
Cracking CreativityMichael Michalko
Paperback: 309 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press; (July 1, 2001)
ISBN: 1580083110
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