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Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace | 
 enlarge | Author: Gordon Mackenzie
Publisher: Viking Adult
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 6265
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0670879835
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9780670879830
ASIN: 0670879835
Publication Date: April 1, 1998
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Book Description
Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, many of which he spent inspiring 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 the story of his own professional evolution, together with lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius. Originally self-published and already a business "cult classic", this personally empowering and entertaining look at the intersection between human creativity and the bottom line is now widely available to bookstores. It will be a must-read for any manager looking for new ways to invigorate employees, and any professional who wants to achieve his or her best, most self-expressive, most creative and fulfilling work.
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 Invaluable Creativity, Leadership & Corporate Survival Guide June 21, 2008
A fantastic read about maintaining & continuing to develop your personal creativity, while not allowing yourself to be stifled by corporate culture. This book has amazing & entertaining color illustrations depicting MacKenzie's personal experiences while working for 30 years at Hallmark Cards, not to mention being filled with extremely funny anecdotes. I found myself wondering several times while reading this book whether the author would have been able to continue to develop his creativity so well if he had not been so fortunate as to find himself with a plum job at Hallmark in the first place. Nonetheless, this book is well worth reading. I think that anyone, at any rung of the corporate ladder, could learn valuable survival & leadership tips from & relate well with Orbiting the Giant Hairball.
Living Outside the Box and Coloring Outside the Lines. April 5, 2008
For those who were born living outside the box and coloring outside the lines..........this book was written for us. Humorous, accurate and great advice on how to survive and even thrive within a large company/corporation.
I clearly understand the dynamics he writes about. I survived and even thrived for the last 10 of my 28 years in a large company. I wish I would have had this book back then. It would have helped me figure out how to fly below the radar even quicker than I did.
Great read February 12, 2008
I bought it for my staff and made it a mandatory read and we talk about it in our weekly staff meeting.
 Easy and inspiring February 10, 2008
The author's story of how he survived corporate life is very inspiring, and told as it is in short vignettes, it's very easy to read. I recommend it for anyone involved in a less than ideal work situation.
Brilliant, hopeful and helpful January 2, 2008
If you work a creative job or are pushing for change within a large company, this is an excellent book. This book was reccomended to me by our CEO as a management book I and thought I'd better grab a copy before I met with her. I bought it at a B&N in the real world, and ended up not leaving the parking lot for an hour because it was so fascinating. I'm very leery of management books, but this one is a beautifully non-linear and chaotic version of a management book. In other words, it's much like the real world. It can be read front to back, or grabbing chapters randomly. Either way, there's much that is inspiring and useful, especially if it's a book that's being embraced at a senior management level within your company. If not, it makes an excellent gift! I've returned to purchase 4-5 copies because I keep giving away mine to share the message with people in the company and in my team.
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