Quantum Creativity: Nine Principles for a Life of Possibility [Paperback]

Pamela Meyer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Yezand Press (December 2, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966011406
• ISBN-13: 978-0966011401
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,574,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Pamela Meyer, Ph.D. is the President of Meyer Creativity Associates, inc. where she works with organizations internationally that want to create dynamic spaces for innovation, learning and positive change. Meyer teaches courses in business creativity, organizational change, and adult learning at DePaul University, where she is director of the Center to Advance Education for Adults, and a faculty fellow at the Center for Creativity and Innovation.

Meyer came to her passion for creative collaboration through her years working with creative teams in the theater as a director and producer. She now uses the lessons she learned in rehearsal halls, and performance spaces to work with organizations around the world that want to create playspace for innovation, learning, and positive change and develop their improvisation capacity. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies across all industry sectors, as well as government, and non-profit organizations. Meyer received a BFA from Boston University, School for Theatre Arts; an MA with a concentration in creativity from Antioch University, and holds a doctorate in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. She is also a member of ASTD, ODNetwork, Academy of Management, and Actors Equity Association. For more information, visit: http://meyercreativity.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book has many fascinating qualities., August 21, 1998

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This review is from: Quantum Creativity: Nine Principles for a Life of Possibility (Paperback)

The following originally appeared in the June/July 1998 issue of BrandPackaging Magazine.

Review of Quantum Creativity, Nine Principles for a Life of Possibility Author: Pamela Meyer Publisher: Yezand Press, Chicago, 1997

If creativity is a key element in developing packaging with impact, then you have to like a book that includes the word "galumphing". However, let's not get to specifics as yet. That is because this book should be viewed, this reviewer believes, as a "helicoptering" tool. It allows one to hover over the popular subject of creativity and observe it from a new perspective. That is one of the book's fascinating qualities.

Pamela Meyer presents a broad scene of creativity, an infrastructure which allows one to see new opportunities. It is a book, therefore, which should be read before you read other creativity/innovation texts. That may be impossible, given the many books already available on the subject. So, maybe it should be read after all those others. Better yet, read it before and after. It's that good.

In her Introduction, Ms. Meyer states "This book is not intended to define a specific experience for the reader. That would be arrogant and disrespectful." That is the type of considerate empathy she has for her readers. Because of this, each chapter can offer something quite personal for each reader's own thoughts, introspection and "re-cognition". That is a fine achievement for a creativity book.

The book presents its holistic overview related, in part, to the author's improvisational theater experiences. Using these and surprisingly understandable quantum physics allusions, Ms. Meyer is able to move the reader away from purely mechanistic and linear thinking. Each of the nine principles - some more immediately accessible to this left brain reviewer than others - serve that purpose. Other readers, I am sure, will find their own insights in their own personally involved principle(s). That is, perhaps, another charm of the book: instant recognition of something quite specific to "lead you back to what you once spontaneously and intuitively knew."

Each principle has its own chapter with its own visually creative symbol/logo. As further aids toward the re-acquisition of the process, toward "re-cognition", each principle is clarified by showing its antagonistic Learned Blocks and how we may progress by Doing Things Differently. At least one principle particularly began to gnaw on this reviewer's many blocks: Embrace Chaos. I have seen elements of this principle presented in many ways by John Cleese, Roger von Oech, Carl Jung ("In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.") and others. Ms. Meyer's Chapter 7 parsimoniously affirms them all.

What is "galumphing"? Exploration just for the fun of it, I think. Galumph through this book then study and re-study the Nine Principles for a Life of Possibility. Whether you are a team member, a manager, a graphic designer, a copy writer, an editor, a printer - whatever -- you'll be rewarded with a whack to the seat of your psyche.

The reviewer is the principal at JFT Studios, a member of the BrandPackaging magazine Advisory Board and an instructor at DePaul University's School for New Learning where he teaches Management for Creativity and Innovation.