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Reading ListAre you looking for tools to enhance creativity in every aspect of your life? Then check out our list of books and resources selected for their ability to engage your mind, offer practical tools for personal renewal and transformation, and delight your spirit. Periodically we'll add new selections — but only if they thoroughly impress us. Happy reading and reflection! Please let us know if their are any outstanding books or resources we should add to our list.
BUSINESS, CREATIVITY, LEARNINGThe
Experience Economy: Work is Theater and Every Business a Stage Builds a convincing case for the shift from selling goods and services to providing memorable experiences as a method of building brand identity and loyalty. Goes beyond using theater as a metaphor for business to recommend that companies in the new economy embrace many of the principles practiced in the performing arts. The
Creative Spirit The compendium to a PBS special of the same name. Offers a good overview of the creative process. Fast Company Magazine A monthly, innovative magazine featuring leading thinkers, useful ideas, and general inspiration. Great profiles on creative people and companies forging new paths in the new economy. Web: www.fastcompany.com Flow:
The Psychology of Optimal Experience A ground-breaking work based on 30 years of research on when people report feeling most creative and effective in their lives. Free
Play: The Power of Improvisation in Life and the Arts Demystifies what being creative is all about by looking at the principles and conditions that foster creativity. Easy to read and very inspiring. Leadership
and the New Science: Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe A thought-provoking work that uses ideas from quantum physics and scientific research to re-examine our thoughts about learning, organization and dealing with change. Wheatley does a great job of helping us see how the principles of self-organization and chaos apply to the workplace and to our experience of time. Leadership
Jazz An inspiring and elegantly written book that uses jazz as a metaphor to offer a fresh perspective on leadership.
Lessons
from the Art of Juggling: How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business,Learning,
and Life Using juggling as a metaphor for learning, this book offers insight into how to maximize learning in any domain. A thoroughly enjoyable read that also provides concrete tools for learning anything well. The
Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work into a Work of Art Using aikido as a metaphor, Crum offers a fresh view on how to embrace conflict as an opportunity to learn and improve communication. Orbiting
the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guidebook to Surviving with Grace A very personal, funny and moving account of MacKenzie's tenure at Hallmark Cards in the 1970s and 80s where he became known as the Creative Paradox. Includes lessons in how to flourish within the system of a large company by retaining personal dignity, creativity and a sense of irreverence. This self-published work features some extraordinary design and writing.
MUSIC BOOKS AND RESOURCESAscension:
John Coltrane and his Quest One of the best books about one of the most important musicians of the twentieth century. Stunningly well written, offering a glimpse into the heart and soul of improvisation. Descarga: www.descarga.com The best source for Latin music CDs (salsa, afro-cuban jazz, merengue, etc.). The site also offers historical insight into how the various musics of Central and South America and the Caribbean were born. Samba An accurate, behind-the-scenes view of Afro-Brazilian culture and music in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Follow Guillermopriento as she joins one of Rio's mega-samba schools, over a nine-month period, students and instructors prepare for their annual Carnaval performance. Rhythm: World Music and Global Culture Magazine A monthly magazine. The best single source for updated information about world music artists, CDs, concert appearances. Great writing and terrific design. Subscribe by calling 1-800-464-2767 or email them at subscribe@gorhythm.com
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Rough Guide to World Music The most complete reference work covering the music of seventy different countries and regions — everything from salsa to soukous, cajun to calypso, rai to quawwali. Great recommendations on which CDs to buy.
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