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Summary: Breakthrough Creativity Tool
Review: Breakthrough Creativity unleashes the power of the Myers-Briggs tool for the management professional. As a Project Management consultant and coach, my clients face two major challenges and this book addresses both: 1) Building an "instant" team from diverse specialties and departments, and 2) Communicating effectively with a variety of personality types. Lynne Levesque's book is a practical, easy to use, reference tool. I give my clients a copy of the book to reinforce our discussions - so they can get their teams into the "performing" stage faster, optimize team interactions, and produce creative results.
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Summary: **A valuable and different perspective **
Review: I am an experience MBA, and I was skeptical about another venture into exploring my own creativity. It turns out Lynne Levesque's book Breakthrough Creativity was definitely a breakthrough in my perceptions. Creativity is not just for artists and advertising. I never really saw my engineering and project management work as "creative," but Levesque's book helped me recognize how confined one's perspective can be. I always sought creativity through sailing or sports. I didn't appreciate how it can play a role in everything I do. This fresh outlook that we are all creative, with individually different creative talents, was a simple but important revelation. It was interesting to discover how much we limit our own creative endeavors. Levesque's metaphors analyzing creativity are imaginative and instructive, and her recommendations were very practical. Her recommendations are clearly grounded on her own business experience. Levesque links creativity with resilience and a sense of possibility, a very powerful concept in today's troubled world. I highly recommend reading this breakthrough book.
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Summary: **A valuable and different perspective **
Review: I am an experience MBA, and I was skeptical about another venture into exploring my own creativity. It turns out Lynne Levesque's book Breakthrough Creativity was definitely a breakthrough in my perceptions. Creativity is not just for artists and advertising. I never really saw my engineering and project management work as "creative," but Levesque's book helped me recognize how confined one's perspective can be. I always sought creativity through sailing or sports. I didn't appreciate how it can play a role in everything I do. This fresh outlook that we are all creative, with individually different creative talents, was a simple but important revelation. It was interesting to discover how much we limit our own creative endeavors. Levesque's metaphors analyzing creativity are imaginative and instructive, and her recommendations were very practical. Her recommendations are clearly grounded on her own business experience. Levesque links creativity with resilience and a sense of possibility, a very powerful concept in today's troubled world. I highly recommend reading this breakthrough book.
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Summary: Excellent tool for self growth
Review: In Breakthrough Creativity, Levesque opens the reader's eyes to the individual talents that he or she possesses. Learning about your orientation to the world, how you process and analyze infomation, and how, exactly, you are creative is the first step in taking advantage of your innate talents. Levesque reveals that you DO have creative talents, and she guides you through a series of steps to learn about what those talents are, and how you can implement a game plan to improve upon those talents. This book is great for anyone who wants to learn how to improve upon themselves. It is also the perfect tool to learn about how to interact with friends, family and co-workers who have different creative talents. By reading the book, I have become empowered to capitalize upon my strengths. More importantly, I am learning how to overcome barriers and explore how I must adjust my behavior to be fully creative. In addition, I have used it to learn about how well I know people who are close to me, and how to revise my attitude and have a higher level of respect toward people who have very different talents than me. This book is eye-opening and refreshing. I give it the highest recommendation!
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Summary: Excellent tool for self growth
Review: In Breakthrough Creativity, Levesque opens the reader's eyes to the individual talents that he or she possesses. Learning about your orientation to the world, how you process and analyze infomation, and how, exactly, you are creative is the first step in taking advantage of your innate talents. Levesque reveals that you DO have creative talents, and she guides you through a series of steps to learn about what those talents are, and how you can implement a game plan to improve upon those talents. This book is great for anyone who wants to learn how to improve upon themselves. It is also the perfect tool to learn about how to interact with friends, family and co-workers who have different creative talents. By reading the book, I have become empowered to capitalize upon my strengths. More importantly, I am learning how to overcome barriers and explore how I must adjust my behavior to be fully creative. In addition, I have used it to learn about how well I know people who are close to me, and how to revise my attitude and have a higher level of respect toward people who have very different talents than me. This book is eye-opening and refreshing. I give it the highest recommendation!
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Summary: At last a tool that is useful and attention grabbing...
Review: In Breakthrough Creativity, Lynne Levesque gives us a tool for using creative and innovative approaches to our life and business. This volume is not just a list of new exercises, it provides a framework for all people to discover how they are creative and how they can maximize their performance. Levesque uses C.G. Jung's theory of psychological patterns for gathering information and making decisions about it. Her explanation of the theory and how we can use it is clear and easy to understand. She presents a method for self selecting our creative talents (we all have them) and then creates eight interesting, attention grabbing profiles. The profiles give us something to identify with as individuals and team members. Breakthrough Creativity makes it clear that all people are not pegged or pigeon-holed in only one area of creative talent. With exercises designed to help us learn more about our own creative processes and the barriers and blocks associated with them, we have the freedom to seek to expand our talents and capabilities. Lynne Levesque carries us from identifying talents to building resilience as we use our creative processes in decision making, handling change and team relationships. I especially liked the way this book focuses on achieving more creative results. Breakthrough Creativity gives practical steps and ideas for applying creative practices to increase our success in life and work.
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Summary: Incredible resource!
Review: Lynne's model of the 8 Talents of creative expression is a wonderful resource for creative individuals and innovative companies. Using the MBTI type criteria, she clearly describes each type in terms of creative strengths and weaknesses with helpful resolutions for collaboration. This book is a real breakthrough in the field of creativity. I highly recommend it to everyone!
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Summary: Incredible resource!
Review: Lynne's model of the 8 Talents of creative expression is a wonderful resource for creative individuals and innovative companies. Using the MBTI type criteria, she clearly describes each type in terms of creative strengths and weaknesses with helpful resolutions for collaboration. This book is a real breakthrough in the field of creativity. I highly recommend it to everyone!
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Summary: Fascinating....Most Illuminating
Review: This book is a "must read" for any manager or aspiring manager today in every industry. Lynne Levesque has identified how the many God given gifts,she calls talents, are present in all people and how they can be effectively tapped for creavitive approaches to new products, problem solving or business directions. To be competitive today you have to be creative and this book shows how it can be done using your employees and there latent creative potential.
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Summary: breakthrough creativity
Review: This book is awesome . It gives you solid information on the type of person that you are and allows you to identify clearly the type of characteristics that are present in the people you live with , work with and interact with in various facets of your life. It is not an easy read - you have to get into the charts to a level that allows you to see the picture and to relate it to your life - read it twice - then it will hit you - it is worth the time
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