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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 158 EAN: 9781596591721 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 1596591722 Label: Your Coach Digital Manufacturer: Your Coach Digital Number Of Items: 7 Publication Date: August 05, 2008 Publisher: Your Coach Digital Studio: Your Coach Digital Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong? In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Sawyer draws on compelling stories of inventions and innovations: the inventors of the ATM, the mountain bike, and open source operating systems, among others, to demonstrate the freewheeling ways of true innovation. He shares the results of his own acclaimed research on jazz groups, theater ensembles, and conversation analysis, to show us how to be more creative in collaborative group settings, how to change organizational dynamics for the better, and how to tap into our own reserves of creativity. Average Rating:
 Rating: - ResultsAfter reading Keith Sawyer's interesting work for years, I added Group Genius as a required text in an Organization Design MBA class I teach. Students are evening students, middle managers to above. They represent all domains, IT, Finance, Engineering, Law, Accounting, Real Estate/Construction and other sciences as well. Following the addition of Group Genius, students began to turn in truly innovative work, creative and original, beyond anything I've seen in years of teaching. They recognized that ... Read More Rating: - Major Contribution-Nearest Billionaire, Endow a Center for This Guy!CHRISTMAS TIP: For the CEO who has too much money, too little time, myopic solicitous subordinates, and some anxiety about the future, this book, together with Howard Gardner's Five Minds for the Future comprise the perfect Christmas gift. Print copies of my review of each and insert those inside each book's cover before wrapping. I have been interested in collective intelligence ever since Howard Rheingold and John Perry Barlow kicked my secret intelligence colleagues in the head back ... Read More Rating:  - Leveraging the Genius of the GroupThe path to becoming more innovative often requires debunking a number of myths or commonly held beliefs. For instance, the idea that a lone genius is often responsible for an invention or innovation. In fact, most innovations or inventions spring from the combination of the work of many people. Edison did not create the lightbulb alone, nor did Al Gore invent the internet by himself. In his book, Group Genius, Keith Sawyer looks at the power of Group Genius, the impact of collaboration ... Read More Rating: - Collaborating multiplies your creativity As befits its subject matter, this is a lively and innovative book, which uses many examples drawn from the worlds of jazz and improvisational theater, as well as from creative writing, cycling, banking and computer technology. Keith Sawyer doesn't stop at telling stories, though; he also supports his ideas with solid evidence. In well-organized chapters, complete with summaries and checklists, he debunks common beliefs about the nature of creativity - primarily, the myth that you need to be an isolated ... Read More Rating: - Effective Argument Against the Myth of the Romantic AuthorR. Keith Sawyer's Group Genius is a fun read -- with great stories about Morse, Darwin, YouTube, Whole Foods, and Google, among others. Sawyer makes a compelling argument about how creativity and innovation come to pass. He writes about sparks and how they lead to great ideas. The book itself provokes sparks as you read along. It's hard not to be inspired by what he has to say, and to re-examine how you work with others or how you run an institution. The book rang particularly true from the perspective ... Read More 
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