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Think Out of the Box [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Mike Vance (Author), Diane Deacon (Author)
Key Phrases: Walt Disney, Team Center, Displayed Thinking (more...)

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In today's fast-changing global marketplace, organizations must adapt to new, sometimes contradictory, demands from customers, competitors, employees, and shareholders. Think Out of the Box offers a treasure chest of operational creativity--the same creative solutions which major corporations have used for three decades.

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Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Career Press; illustrated edition edition (February 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1564142787
ISBN-13: 978-1564142788
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces

Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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Walt Disney, Team Center, Displayed Thinking, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas Edison, Jack Welch, Buckminster Fuller, Roy Disney, Los Angeles, Card Walker, Disney Way, Norman Brinker, General Electric, Burger King, Creative Thinking Association of America, Ohio State, Apple Computer, Coral Room, Jim Newton, Briefing Board, Fort Myers, San Francisco, United States, Vernon Luck, Blue Bayou

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This book cites 12 books:

Walt Disney (A See and Read Biography) by Greta Walker on 6 pages
Mary Poppins by Walt Disney on page 22, and page 112
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Pictureback(R)) by RH Disney on page 112, and page 169
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincen Peale on page 19
Water Music: for Orchestra by George Frideric Handel on page 181

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book about creative thinking and creative thinkers!!, May 16, 1996

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This review is from: Think Out of the Box (Hardcover)

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

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful information on business creativity, July 15, 1997

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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

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2.0 out of 5 stars Average at best, January 31, 2000

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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.

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1.0 out of 5 stars The authors like to talk about themselves, and talk, and talk......
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Diane Deacon has amazing insight in her writing. I thoroughly enyoyed it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Think Out of the Box
Diane Deacon has amazing insight in her writing. I thoroughly enyoyed it!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Think Out of the Box
No real information. Just a view from 5000 feet.

Published on January 25, 2001 by cacree

2.0 out of 5 stars Authors should take the advice they peddle...
...then maybe they would present some original ideas that readers haven't heard many times before.

Published on May 1, 2000

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