Orbiting the giant hairball : a corporate fool's guide to surviving with grace

Mackenzie, Gordon.

Book 1998

"Gordon MacKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, where he inspired his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy and rise to orbit - to a mode of dreaming, daring, and doing above and beyond the rubber-stamp confines of the administrative mind-set. In his deeply funny book, exuberantly illustrated in full color, he shares lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius. He teaches how to emerge from the "giant hairball"--T...

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ISBN:

9780670879830
0670879835

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm

Notes:

Contents:

1. Where have all the geniuses gone?
2. The giant hairball
3. Pink Buddha
4. Preparing for lift-off
5. A chicken's fate
6. Thou shalt not have it easy
7. What you don't see is what you get
8. No access
9. First there's grope, then there's rote
10. Containers contain
11. Cage dwellers
12. Introducing ... your brain
13. About teasing
14. High-tech peaches
15. Milk cans are not allowed
16. The power of paradox
17. Death masks
18. The pyramid and the plum tree
19. Orville wright
20. Beyond measure
21. A conference of angels
22. Dynamic following
23. Pool-hall dog
24. Paint me a masterpiece

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97052991

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2310485

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