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Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon... read more
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“"If we do not let go, we make prisoners of ourselves."”
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“"Any time a bureaucrat (i.e., a custodian of a system) stands between you and something you need or want, your challenge is to help that bureaucrat discover a means, harmonious with the system, to meet your needs."”
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““You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.””
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“But because you cannot focus on it, you cannot measure the actual creative process. Well, in the eyes of any Anal Retentive worth his salt, anything that cannot be measured is of doubtful value -- and even of doubtful existence.”
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Groaning under its overload of blacksmith equipment and steel passengers - a menagerie of elephants, crocodiles, Stegosauri, turtles and sundry fantasy creatures - my rusted-out pickup swayed ominously as I gentled it into the school parking lot to a safe stop.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 17 of 29 in SIM's Regional Leadership Forum 2011 Book List. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Prince, and followed by The Visual Miscellaneum.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Gordon MacKenzie (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 650.1
Subjects edit
- Books › Business & Investing › Management & Leadership › Management
- Books › Entertainment › Humor › Business
- Books › Entertainment › Humor › Self-Help & Psychology
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Creativity
- Books › Business & Investing › Job Hunting & Careers
- Books › Business & Investing › Business Life
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