The Hothouse Effect: Intensify Creativity in Your Organization Using Secrets from History's Most Innovative Communities

By Barton Kunstler

"Throughout history, across many centuries and an enormous range of cultures, certain communities have stood out as bastions of creativity and intellectual progress. From ancient Athens to the vibrant... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814407692
• ISBN13: 9780814407691
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: AMACOM
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Absolutely the "BEST" book I've read in a long time!

With its fantastic cover, electric colors, and jacket headingwhich reads "Intensify Creativity in Your Organization UsingSecrets from History's Most Innovative Communities," the"Hothouse Effect" is nicely packaged as an organizationalself-help book. But it is so much more than that. Although itsucceeds in this regard, it is organized in a way that allows the reader to absorb practical strategies for innovation and creativity in the workplace. The "Hothouse Effect" is not aboutbusiness as usual. As one reader to another, I suggest that you follow the hyperlink, highlighted in green on the jacket cover, and read the book.Dr Kunstler has written an engaging and transcendent book thattakes the reader on a spectacular journey through and around time to such places as Athens, Florence, Paris, Boston & New York. Much of the text reads like a fast moving can't put this book down novel, but it is pure non-fiction, and the characters, whether historical or contemporary, are real people who have successfully intensified creativity through an explosive interrelationship of individual to group which Dr. Kunstler calls the "Hothouse Effect." The secrets of this phenomenon are here for anyone seeking an edge in this highly competitive, interconnected globe of ours.This is a ten-star book that should be on every business manager's desk and made into software for the desktops of every employee, teacher, student, artist, and musician. The "Hothouse Effect" is absolute "Hyper-thought."Joseph A. Romano

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Dr.Kunstlers "The Hothouse Effect" reveals the dynamic that I suspect we are seeing in the phenominal developments coming out of China today in their industrial and scienfific push towards world leadership. Reading it reveals clues to what breeds competitiveness and innovation. It may be a wake up call ! R.Prince. Pres. Easy-China (USA)