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Stimulated!: Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work | 
 enlarge | Authors: Andrew Pek, Jeannine Mcglade
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group, LLC
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 240912
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1929774508
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9781929774500
ASIN: 1929774508
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
With the pace of competition, innovation, and change in today's world, creativity isn't a luxury--it's a survival skill. But even the most creative people can end up stuck, stressed out, and stale, worn down by the daily grind. Stimulated! is an energetic exploration of five habits that can help you release your creativity and expand your innovative thinking. The method is playful, fun, enriching, and mind-expanding, but most important, it's a step-by-step process for getting unstuck. With Stimulated!, you learn - how to draw inspiration and fresh insights from the world around you;
- how to make the most of your surroundings and develop an environment that will get the creative juices flowing;
- how to turn work into play;
- how to take the leap of faith and commit to big, bold ideas; and
- how to reap the benefits of your success and failures to contribute to the next creative effort.
Praise for Stimulated!: 'Stuck in a rut? Stimulated! will awaken possibilities you never thought existed. Read this book and jump start your life!' --Ken Blanchard, author of One Minute Manager and Know Can Do! 'As an innovation how-to, Stimulated! is a fascinating book that is full of ways to help you unlock your creative potential.' --Neal Goldberg, President, The Children's Place
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Stimulated and titillated July 17, 2008
Pek and McGlade's book is as promised: an idea-packed, fun, and yes, stimulating book. This book tickles the recesses of your brain to help you mine your creativity, ingenuity and have fun doing so. Recommended for knocking the cobwebs from your mental gearbox.
TK
Making American Industry Great Once Again July 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The American auto industry is almost belly up. American airlines are in a tailspin. Other major manufacturing and service sectors of American industry are in a state of collapse.
Not all of the problems of American industry are related to the price of oil. The lack of creativity and innovativeness in these industries is a large part of their problems.
There are those who contend that creativity just comes naturally to some people, like, for example, Ben Franklin and Albert Einstein. Not so, say Pek and McGlade, the husband-and-wife team of international consultants in creativity and innovation, in Stimulated!, their second offering on the subject.
Everyone, they contend, is born creative. But, the pressures of hierarchy and conformity in the modern American organization kill these creative instincts. Which, in turn, has led to the "can't do" culture prevalent in American industry today.
How to release our nascent, native creative energies, that not just a short while ago were responsible for the worldwide supremacy of American manufacturing and service, is what Pek and McGlade are all about.
Stimulated! lays out a 5-step process that Pek and McGlade have successfully implemented in Corporations in the US and in Europe. The five steps consist of Scouting for new ideas and insights; Cultivating these ideas; Playing with them in one's mind, Venturing to put these ideas into practice; and Harvesting the results. The interplay of these five steps leads to the generation of not just one or two good ideas, but, to a cascade of original insights that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls "flow".
What kinds of projects have benefited from Pek and McGlade's creativity and innovation program? - changing the culture of the organization, developing new learning methodologies, raising the esprit de corps of teams and groups, doubling business volume, connecting the global workforce, creating unique competitive strategies, improving the work ethic, spurring product/service innovations, to name but a few.
Given the doldrums in which the auto, the airlines, and other major sectors of American industry find itself, Stimulated! is just the right book for the times! Anyone who owns a business, or runs a business, and wants to make the business more creative, more productive should devour the book entirely, and early.
STIMULATED BY JEANNINE MCGLADE AND ANDREW PEK July 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I TOTALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK AND I BELIEVE IT CAN SPARK CREATIVITY NO MATTER WHAT FIELD YOU ARE IN. SO MANY OF THE IDEAS COULD BE PUT INTO MOTION EVEN IF YOU ARE A HOMEMAKER, BY USING THESE IDEAS IN YOUR EVERY DAY LIFE.
Everything one needs to make the most of their time June 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Creativity - something that used to be ignored in the business world, but now is a necessity. Stimulated! Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work is a guide to get those now required juices flowing and get everything one needs to make the most of their time. Focusing on the details of how to draw inspiration from the world, making a proper environment to facilitate one's thoughts, committing oneself, learning from one's failures, and most importantly, learning to have fun with one's job, Stimulated! is ideal for anyone in a field calling for creativity. Highly recommended for community library business collections.
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