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Think Out of the Box

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This is an execlent book!! I really enjoyed reading "Think Out of the Box" Mike Vance has vast wealth of knowledge on building a creative environment in companies. He was the Dean of Disney University and has first hand knowledge of how the Disney Company builds and fosters creative culture. Mike helped build the creative culture inside Apple in the very beginning. Mike has also met many very creative people of our century. In between each chapter there is a Profile of creative people Mike has met. About each person, he covers what these people did, a personal story about them and what best pratices the person followed. All of these people have outstanding accomplishments.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: How did we get boxed in?
Profile in Creativity: Norman Brinker
Chapter 2: Tools for opening the box
Profile in Creativity: Thomas Edison
Chapter 3: The nine-point formula for success
Profile in Creativity: Louis L'Amour
Chapter 4: The monumental transformation
Profile in Creativity: Frank Lloyd Wright
Chapter 5: Designing creative environments, The enriched place
Profile in Creativity: Dr. J. Vernon Luck
Chapter 6: MICORBS: the seven-step format to break out of the box
Profile in Creativity: Dr. R. Buckmaster Fuller
Chapter 7: Nine fundamental questions to get out of the box
Profile in Creativity: A. C. (Mike) Markkula
Chapter 8: Ideation techniques
Profile in Creativity: Jack Walch
Chapter 9: Inspiration: the missing link
Profile in Creativity: Walt Disney

Mike Vance is one of the deans of the growing field of business creativity. He shares many of his techniques with amazing openness. I learned lots and have been able to apply it immediately in my creativity consultancy. Through Mike, I have been able to see more clearly into the mind of my creativity mentor, Walt Disney, and further back to Disney's mentor, Leonardo DaVinci. Vance's use of storyboarding and Displayed Thinking have helped me and my clients visualize our thinking and led us to new ways of creating and solving problems. Check out his other book, "Break Out of the Box" ... a great companion piece. Both books are out of my bookshelf more than they are in it

There are a lot of books out there these days that deal with creative thinking. This book is average at best. It's a book where the authors cobbled some creative techniques with bios of famous thinkers. It's a simplistic approach that, at best, will benefit the reader who has read little in the field.

This is the most self-serving, self-congratulatory, self-obsessed book I've ever seen on any subject.

"Thomas Alva Edison is the only person on our list of nine out-of-the-box thinkers that neither one of us had ever known personally". (P.60)
Do you believe they wrote that? I thought the next sentence might be, "But God told us He would fix that when we get to heaven".

There is more where that came from. I challenge you to read it all the way through without throwing up.

No real information. Just a view from 5000 feet.

...then maybe they would present some original ideas that readers haven't heard many times before.

Diane Deacon has amazing insight in her writing. I thoroughly enyoyed it!

Diane Deacon has amazing insight in her writing. I thoroughly enyoyed it!