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Orbiting the Giant Hairball

A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving With Grace

By Gordon Mackenzie

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| Hardcover | 9780670879830

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Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzieContinue

Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, many of which he spent inspiring his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy and rise to orbit--to a mode of dreaming, daring and doing above and beyond the rubber-stamp confines of the administrative mind-set. In his deeply funny book, exuberantly illustrated in full color, he shares the story of his own professional evolution, together with lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius.

Originally self-published and already a business "cult classic", this personally empowering and entertaining look at the intersection between human creativity and the bottom line is now widely available to bookstores. It will be a must-read for any manager looking for new ways to invigorate employees, and any professional who wants to achieve his or her best, most self-expressive, most creative and fulfilling work.

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  • Orbiting the Giant Hairball A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace By Gordon MacKenzie

    When two hairs unite, a chain reaction ensues. They attract another hair. And another. And another. "Before long," explains author Gordon MacKenzie, "where there was once nothing, this tangled impenetrable mass has begun to form."It is this resulting ... (read full critics)

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    Gordon MacKenzie from Hallmark Cards has subtitled his book "A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace." I was introduced to the book by a college professor who was reading it in her book club. This book is loaded with drawings. Chapter 9 is simply "Orville Wright did not have a pilot's licen ... (continue)

    Gordon MacKenzie from Hallmark Cards has subtitled his book "A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace." I was introduced to the book by a college professor who was reading it in her book club. This book is loaded with drawings. Chapter 9 is simply "Orville Wright did not have a pilot's license." This book inspired me.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 224 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0670879835
  • ISBN-13: 9780670879830
  • Publisher: Viking Adult
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 1998
  • Dimensions: 1161 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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