Stimulated!: Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work

By Jeannine McGlade and Andrew Pek

*Winner of the Print Industries of America's Benny Award for jacket design*With the pace of competition, innovation, and change in today's world, creativity isn't a luxury--it's a survival skill. But... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929774508
• ISBN13: 9781929774500
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.9" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Stimulated and titillated

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

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

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.

Perfect for business libraries and general collections alike

STIMULATED! HABITS TO SPARK YOUR CREATIVE GENIUS AT WORK offers fine insight into competition, innovation and change and explores five habits that can help you release your creativity. From using new insights from the world and developing a creative, stimulating environment to committing to new and bold ideas and understanding the creative effort, this is packed with insights and inspiration - and perfect for business libraries and general collections alike.