Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Book Information
Publisher: | Random House |
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Publish Date: | 04/08/2014 |
Pages: | 368 |
ISBN-13: | 9780812993011 |
ISBN-10: | 0812993012 |
Language: | English |
What We're Saying
The business and economic world's most visible book award was announced today. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
A shortlist for the 2014 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award was announced yesterday. The books chosen focus very much on the big-picture issues of the day, "the most important trends shaping our world" as the press release puts it, so the switch from Goldman Sachs to McKinsey as a partner to FT has not reduced the scope of the books as I thought it may. (I speculated back in May when the announcement was made that McKinsey would now be backing the award that it may change focus to the more nuts-and-bolts business management issues that McKinsey ostensibly focuses on in its own work. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
I speculated back in May when submissions opened for The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company 2014 Business Book of the Year Award that the books they looked at would be more focused on business nuts-and-bolts issues now that a consultancy firm (McKinsey) had taken over for an investment bank (Goldman Sachs) as the Financial Times' partner on the awards. I also thought they would not be announcing a longlist as they had in the past because it was not on their awards schedule. It seems I was wrong on both counts, because The Financial Times and McKinsey announced a longlist this morning, and the books on it are mostly big-picture books, not nut-and-bolts business and management books. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
We conclude our Thinker in Residence series with Margaret Heffernan by asking her a few questions about our bread and butter—business and books. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
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- If you don't strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
- It's not the manager's job to prevent risks. It's the manager's job to make it safe for others to take them.
- The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.
- A company's communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.