Product Description
In Advantage Play, magician, producer and former tax lawyer David Ben explores the relationship between the secrets of magic and the secrets of success.
In lively prose peppered with references to conjurers past and present, Advantage Play offers readers an intensive course in gaining the upper hand. Using classic magic tricks as case studies, Ben applies a magician's most sophisticated techniques to a business manager's most central concerns -- creativity, problem solving, sales and team management.
The goal is to teach people how to think like magicians, strike the word "impossible" from their vocabulary, harness their creativity, and control their destinies.
Thought provoking, surprising and full of practical magic, this is essential reading for Advantage Players present and future.
About the Author
David Ben a graduate of the London School of Economics is in great demand as a corporate keynote speaker on creativity and problem solving to Fortune 500 firms. He is the sole protégé of Ross Bertram -- one of the great sleight-of-hand magicians of the twentieth century. Ben has performed throughout the United States and is the co-creator, performer and producer of The Conjuror and The Conjuror's Suite. He divides his time between in New York and Toronto.
