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Crash Course in Creativity (Paul Birch and Brian Clegg)
This book looks at the key skills that nurture creativity and then has around 150 exercises and techniques to help develop it. It is arranged in thirty units which are each designed to be completed in your spare time in a week but could each be crashed through in a day if need be.
- (Kogan Page 2002)
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Crash Course in Managing People (Paul Birch and Brian Clegg)
This book looks at the key skills that make for effective management and then has around 150 exercises and techniques to help develop it. It is arranged in thirty units which are each designed to be completed in your spare time in a week but could each be crashed through in a day if need be.
- (Kogan Page 2002)
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Instant Coaching (Paul Birch)
Coaching is increasingly being seen as an essential management technique. Many find the shift from a traditional management style difficult. Based on the Instant series approach of around seventy exercises that build to develop your skill, this book approaches coaching like no other.
- (Kogan Page 2001)
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Instant Leadership (Paul Birch)
To paraphrase Shakespeare, some are born to lead, some choose to lead and others have leadership thrust upon them. Whichever category you fall within, there is always room for improvement. And it doesn't take a lifetime. There are 66 exercises in this book, some of which truly are instant.
- (Kogan Page 1999)
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Instant Creativity (Paul Birch & Brian Clegg)
takes the Instant approach of Instant Teamwork to creativity. A great collection of short techniques which can be applied in a few minutes to solve a problem or generate ideas - a great resource to use alongside Imagination Engineering or on its own.
- (Kogan Page 1999)
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Instant Teamwork (Paul Birch & Brian Clegg)
Provides an easy to use action kit bursting with exercises. Divided into icebreakers, warm-ups, time-outs and high tech, high prep exercises. You are likely to find a whole bunch of new ways of energising or revitalising a team.
- (Kogan Page 1998)
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DisOrganization (Paul Birch & Brian Clegg)
DisOrganization applies creative thinking to the very structure and working of your organization. Constructed around five practical sections, which reflect the paradigms of strategic management; each section ends with an implementable DisOrganization chapter. Including case studies and exercises, this book provides you with ideas and the know-how to act on them.
- (Financial Times 1998)
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Imagination Engineering (Paul Birch & Brian Clegg)
A complete toolkit for unleashing your creativity. A handbook of techniques for generating and implementing creative business solutions that covers all the stages of the creative process from identification to implementation.
- (Financial Times 1996, 2000)
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Business Creativity (Paul Birch & Brian Clegg)Now out of print in the UK but still available in many translations around the world. This book will probably not be missed much. It was our first and not our best. - (Kogan Page 1995) - now out of print |
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How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci
An excellent book that examines the way that Leonardo DaVinci thought and gives tools and techniques to improve the creativity of your own thinking. By the end you might be thinking that you don't want to think like Leonardo if you have to put this much work in! Still, well worth reading.
- (Element Books 2004)
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Thinkertoys (Michael Michalko)
A book which is fun to read, great to look at and genuinely useful. There are over thirty techniques and hundreds of tips and techniques. It also wins the prize for the most bizarre chapter headings ever!
- (Ten Speed Press 1991)
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Aha (Jordan Ayan)
10 ways to free your creative spirit and find your great ideas |
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Creativity and Innovation for Managers (Brian Clegg)
OK there is a bias here because Brian is a co-author of other books with Paul but this really is an excellent book for those who wish to manage a creative organisation.
- (Butterworth Heinemann 1999)
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Complexity and Creativity in Organizations (Ralph D. Stacey)
A heavier book than some of the others above. This book looks at the relationship between complexity theory and creativity from an organisational perspective.
- (Berrett-Koehler 1996)
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The Act of Creation (Arthur Koestler)
Quite aged now in style as well as years (originally published in the 1960's). A philosophical look at how creativity happens and why.
- (Arkana 1989)
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Creativity and Personality (Marci Segal)
A book that looks at the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and explores what it has to say about how different types approach creativity. (Not available through Amazon.co.uk)
- (Telos 2001)
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The Artist's Way (Julia Cameron)
A magical do-it-yourself self help book, ostensibly providing a 10 week course in ‘discovering and recovering your creative self.’ We think it can do much more than that. For Chrissie it was the book that kick-started our now on-going adventures in creating the life you really want.
- (Pan Books 1995)
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Your Best Year Yet (Jinny Ditzler)
It was the first four chapters that did it for us in this book. The writer gives you a process to examine the ways you have been limiting yourself and your potential in the last year, as well as celebrating your successes. It then offers a very analytical and pragmatic approach to planning for the coming year.
- (Thorsons 1994)
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Real Magic (Wayne Dyer)
A very personal, human account of his philosophy of ‘creating miracles in everyday life’. Full of insight and wisdom, and demonstrating that what we think does indeed create our reality. He grounds it in the world we will all recognise - work, relationships, kids, our own foibles, and leaves you knowing you can make a difference.
- (HarperPaperbacks 1992)
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Manifest Your Destiny (Wayne Dyer)
Published six years after Real Magic, this is a refinement of Dr Dyer’s thinking. It is a beautiful, spiritual book which is one of the clearest distillations of how we think and choose to be can bring us our desires. While Real Magic is very much Dr Dyer’s own voice, this seems to come from somewhere else - as though he just had to get out of the way and it got written. Highly recommended.
- (Thorsons 1998)
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Creative Visualization (Shakti Gawain)
Visualisations are a powerful creative medium, since what we picture in our mind begins the process of creation. This book gives clear guidance on how to do visualisations, and contains ones to help you experience abundance, connect with your Higher Self, be in the flow, heal yourself and more. She does lots of pre-recorded cassettes too.
- (New World Library 1995)
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The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (Deepak Chopra)
Deepak Chopra has written loads of books, but this one gets on our list because is it simple and speaks straight to us. Each ‘law’ gives you practical guidance on creating the reality you want. It is particularly good on helping you live lightly, and seeing your unique purpose in life.
- (Bantam Press 1999)
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Garden of Gods (Peter O. Erbe)
A collection of little inspirations and widsoms, in a poetic style you will either resonate with or hate. We like it though! It reinforces concepts about the nature of the universe, living in the present, allowing abundance into your life, being your unique self.
- (Triad 1996)
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I Come as a Brother (Bartholomew)
Bartholomew ‘channels’ through Mary-Margaret Moore, and whether you believe that such a thing is possible, it is a beautiful read. In a Q&A format, Bartholomew speaks about the love of self, spirituality on the earth plane, fear, soul groups, the nature of sexual energy, and lots more. Full of wisdom.
- (Hay House Inc 1997)
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Living Magically (Gill Edwards)
A combination of philosophy, wisdom and practical exercises, visualisations and meditations to help you reach a deeper understanding of your self. It covers a lot of ground, and you may feel you can skim bits that you feel you are already aware of, while others point up some useful inner work you can do. Includes plenty of case studies, and references to other helpful sources.
- (Piatkus 1991)
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The Luck Factor (Richard Wiseman)
A scientific study of lucky people. What makes people lucky or unlucky? What can you do to become one of the lucky ones? Very readable and has some useful ideas.
- (Arrow 2004)
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The Field (Lynne McTaggart)
For anyone who is boggled by the reality of sub-atomics, this is totally wonderful. Written by a journalist rather than a scientist (and therefore fairly easy to read), it brings together serious research over the last three decades that suggest reality is not what we all thought. It offers explanations for collective consciousness, how our minds affect our concrete reality, telepathy, and homeopathy - to mention but a few of the phenomenon traditionally written off by the scientific community. Truly excellent.
- (HarperCollins 2001)
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The Tao of Physics (Fritjof Capra)
A renowned physicist looks at the parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism. Tough going at times for a non-scientist, but a great introduction to the quantum world, in which everything is at all times in a state of being potentially anything, until affected and shaped by human consciousness. Also good on the nature of space-time (did you know it curves? This book makes sense of why!)
- (Flamingo 1991)
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The Nature of Personal Reality (Jane Roberts)
Jane Roberts writes books that are ‘channelled’ by Seth, a personality who speaks through her when she is in a trance-like state. More recent writings have made the premises in this book much clearer, but it was one of the early books on how we create our own reality, and deserves a place on our list.
- (Amber-Allen 1994)
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Conversations With God (Book 1) (Neale Donald Walsch)
Three books bundled together because once you read the first, you just have to read the others! If you don’t relate to the notion of ‘God’, suspend your disbelief, because these channelled books are extraordinary in terms of explaining all the biggest why’s you’ve ever had. Why are we here? Why is there pain and misery in the world? What happens when we die? In a very human Q&A format, Neale battles it out with a God that has a great sense of humour, and insights that will knock your socks off. All three books are subtitled ‘An Uncommon Dialogue’. You ain’t kidding!
- (Hodder and Stoughton 1997, 1997 and 1998)
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Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)
Originally published in the early 1970s this book is one of the first to look at the ways that modern physics is moving towards Eastern philosophy. It is written as a first person account of a father and son journeying on the back roads of the USA by bike. It explores the nature of reality in ways that no book before it had done. (There is also a 25th anniversary edition available).
- (Corgi 1989)
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A short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
Probably the best popular science book ever written. This one, as the title suggests, covers nearly everything. And it does it astoundingly well.
- (Black Swan 2004)
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Orbiting the Giant Hairball (Gordon MacKenzie)
Gordon MacKenzie (who is now, sadly, dead) has created a wonderful book that explains in some detail how those of us who were never really meant to live within a large corporate environment can survive it. As the title suggests the solution is to orbit and never get sucked into the full pull of gravity.
- (Viking Penguin 1996)
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Maverick! (Ricardo Semler)
This book was first published in 1988 and has some very useful lessons for all businesses. It is a story about radical change in Semco, a Brazilian manufacturing company. A must read book for anyone who has ever looked at their business and thought, "There must be a better way". A must read book for any leader who is willing to be radical in their thinking.
- (Random House 2004)
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Synchronicity - The Inner Path of Leadership (Joseph Jaworski)
At first this book is a little misleading. When you start reading it feels like a pure autobiography of a few years in the life of Joseph Jaworski. It is written as such but develops into an exploration of leadership, the nature of reality, the role of business and many, many more issues.
- (Berett-Koehler 1996)
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Sacred Business (David Firth and Heather Campbell)
Written as a story following the development of the lead character this book is about confusion: of decisions and priorities, and of purpose. Amidst constant change, we want to live productive, balanced, minimum-stress lives - this book helps find the solution to doing that from lessons already known from ancient wisdom (remembering rather than inventing). It is a book about how business could be.
- (Capstone 2001)
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Fish! (Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen)
This is a book based on the story of the famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle. It doesn't actually tell the story of that remarkable place directly but through the story of Mary Jane Ramirez who learns the secrets of the markets success from Lonnie (a fish guy) and applies them to her workplace. Read it - it really is worth it.
- (Hodder and Stoughton 2001)
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Who Moved My Cheese (Dr Spencer Johnson)
This is a management parable about Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw. They are occupants of a maze in which cheese appears. The story is about change and ways to deal with it.
- (Vermillion 1999)
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The Company Culture Cookbook (Kevin M. Thompson)
A look at company culture taking the approach of a cookbook with elements broken down into recipies.
- (Financial Times Prentice Hall 2002)
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NLP At Work (Sue Knight)
A truly excellent coverage of NLP in a work context that manages to avoid the manipulation that many NLP books major on and that has given NLP a bad name in some areas. Impressively complete coverage of the subject.
- (Nicholas Brealey 2002)
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Leadership and the New Science (Margaret Wheatley)
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- (Berrett-Koehler 2001)
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Tales for Change (Margaret Parkin)
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- (Kogan Page 2004)
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Tales for Trainers (Margaret Parkin)
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- (Kogan Page 1998)
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The Story Factor (Annette Simmons)
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- (Perseus 2002)
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Chicken Soup for the Soul (Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen)
This is not a book about story telling but is a collection of heart warming stories that make you feel good to be human. The series of chicken soup books is now massive including collections for teenagers (on a range of subjects), pre-teens, mothers, daughters, sisters, parents, girlfriends, nurses, even horse lovers!
- (Vermilion 2000)
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