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Slingshot: Re-Imagine Your Business Re-Imagine Your Life [Paperback]

Gabor George Burt
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Book Description

July 3, 2011
Slingshot explores the connection between systematic creativity and smart strategy.


"Slingshot is a great exploration of how to be great in the world!" 
--Jeff Hayzlett, former CMO of Eastman-Kodak, change agent and marketing authority, author of The Mirror Test 

"I am really drawn to Slingshot." 
--Sir Ken Robinson, leading global expert on education and creativity, best-selling author 

"An uplifting and universal blueprint for inventive thinking." 
--Chip Conley, founder and executive chairman of Joie de Vivre, second largest boutique hotel company in the U.S., acclaimed author

"This book helps us unleash the vast potential of regained creativity and apply it in business, art, and other pursuits of our adult life." 
--Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik's Cube (the world's best-selling toy) 

"Slingshot is like looking at things through the other end of a telescope." 
--Dave Stewart, legendary musician and fearless innovator 

"Slingshot opens up possibilities - no preconceptions, no boundaries." 
--Jonathan Hornby, director of worldwide marketing, SAS (voted America's best company to work for) 

"Slingshot helps to understand how much you need to find new solutions." 
--Barbara Kuit, co-architect of the world's tallest tower 

"This is a rare book. Playful yet informed, creative and proven." 
--Rob Bell, spiritual pioneer and best-selling author, on TIME's "100 Most Influential People" list 

"Slingshot enables the critical link between creativity and effective application." 
--Dudley 'Tal' Stokes, 4-time Olympian, founding member of the Jamaican Bobsled Team, entrepreneur 

"I love defying conventional wisdom. Great spirit to this book." 
--Richard Lobel, executive vice president, CBS Radio 

"The concepts of Slingshot come at a time when we must learn to re-tap our imaginations!" 
--Evan Farmer, visionary artist and television personality


What if you could reignite your childhood creativity in a systematic way, to overstep self-imposed limitations and to discover what you are really capable of achieving? It's all here at your fingertips. Defy conventional wisdom and give reign to your imagination for success in your business and your life. 

Continuous innovation is both necessary and exhilarating, and we all possess the inner capacity for it. Our capacity has simply been buried and lays dormant within us. As children, our imagination knew no boundaries. We would grab a slingshot and be instantly transformed into a warrior, a spy, a huntress, or protector of treasure. But as we grew older, our intellectual comfort zone shifted from that of continuous exploration and inquisitiveness to that of conformity with accepted norms of perception. All is not lost, however. We just need the right framework to re-engage our youthful creativity: the Slingshot Framework.

Find out why you need to infatuate your target audience and to provide them continuous lifestyle enrichment; how to become market-driving and to shape your offering for broadest relevance; and how to channel your reclaimed creativity into smart strategy. Launch yourself to new business and personal heights and have fun doing it. 

Re-enforcing the book's message, brilliant illustrations by children accompany the text from beginning to end, while original music and toy slingshots provide readers with a truly multi-sensory experience.

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"Recreating that childlike wonder and infatuation in business, work and life."
--American Express Guru Review by Matthew E. May

From the Author

There are compelling reasons why ‘Slingshot’ was chosen as the title of this book. My purpose in writing it was to show a practical path to unconventional thinking and to inspire a re-connection with our natural, childhood creativity – as a foundation for formulating successful strategies.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Franklin Green (July 3, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1936487071
  • ISBN-13: 978-1936487073
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #908,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gabor George Burt is the author of 'Slingshot: Re-Imagine Your Business, Re-Imagine Your Life,' which explores the connection between systematic creativity and smart strategy.

Over the past decade Gabor has gained international recognition in the management world as a pioneer in the strategic perspective of Defying Conventional Wisdom, as well as a leading expert on Blue Ocean Strategy, the influential framework that transforms unconventional ideas into successful strategies. He is actively involved in shaping strategy for a diverse group of international clients from Fortune 500 firms to successful start-ups and leading by example through his own initiatives, such as the Immersive Executive Experience series and Team-O Entertainment.

Gabor writes articles for leading business publications and hosts a nationally broadcast radio show. He has been featured in the book 'Radical Action for Radical Times,' and contributed case study material for the record-breaking book 'Blue Ocean Strategy.' Gabor's blog has been selected as one of the top online resources on innovation.

Gabor was born in Budapest, Hungary. He holds a BA in psychology from Amherst College as well as an MBA from INSEAD, France.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Slingshot at slingshot October 13, 2011
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I particularly like the metaphors, sketches and stories that Gabor has narrated throughout the book. While the slingshot enables our minds with creative tension, the accordion stretches our imagination to both understand and create new value.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Slingshot August 27, 2011
By Di
Format:Paperback
This book is such a "wow"! I never anticipated that I would enjoy it so much.
Slingshot is so innovative, informative, and most of all just fun to read.
This book is a great read from any perspective.
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I can tell you right now that just reading the book was a life enrichment experience, the book and the images shown, every example inserts you in a different way to view the world, people's needs and wants, and as you say it puts companies in the mind of the consumer to create something that they didn't even knew they wanted but then it's very possible they don't want to live without it, they want to have it at all cost.

Reading the book, many things stormed into my mind, things that I had already seen, in movies or books but that you don't put together at the time, like the example about the bank, they won an award for the way they gave credit and help people get to where they want to be in life, I immediately thought about a Jim Carey movie "Yes Man", his character worked in a bank approving (or not so much) credits to people, you can see at the beginning of the movie that he rejected practically all of them, but once he started saying yes to everything the bank discovered that the people asking for small credits were so grateful to get the help they needed to fulfill their dreams that they made all of their payments on time, and they promoted the character and created a new business unit inside the bank. It was the unconventional thinking that got him there, to say yes instead of no all the time, which in his job was kind of a requirement.

The other thing was the example of the moo - seums, they sounded really cool, and something very similar was done here in Chile, it's practically the same, we have local artists painting horses in 3 or 4 different poses and set them in front of building in main streets, this was done a couple of years ago, and just last year it was duplicated with heart shaped art, they were actually located very closed to were you were staying. And like you said it was impossible to scape if you wanted to, when finally admiring them every day on my way to work, I stopped to take a closer look at them, to see who the artists were, and what was the name each, It was great to see that it gave a chance for unknown art students, and even children to show their work for everyone to see.

I think the book gives you the necessary tools to reengage with your childhood way of thinking, thinking that many people perceive as crazy but actually works, it made me think of a quote from George Bernard Shaw, whom you quoted in Slingshot, it's a phrase that since a read has always stuck with me "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man".

Business Bureau, Santiago - Chile
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