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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: This is just the best book on creativity in the world. Ever. The Power of the paradox is everywhere, a power Catch 22. The only question is, why after reading this do we revert to 'normal' organisational behavoiur so quickly?...maybe we who have read it should make everyone else who has not, read it right now! C
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Summary: A rare gem
Review: This book is a rare gem; its full of insight and allows you to consider what you really need to give, and get, from that part of you lives we call work. The really amazing thing is that its hilarious too! If nothing else, every one should read the chapter on Teasing and Orville Wright. This is an exceptional book; I just bought 11 copies to pass out to friends.
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Summary: Best freaking book ever
Review: This is the best book on how to be an effective manager, how to be an effective employee, and how to have fun while being paid for it and how to feel like your life has been worthwhile ever written. MacKenzie's only mistake: charging less than $1,000/copy.
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Summary: Finally a book which sums up corporate America
Review: A great survival tool for anyone who has chosen an artful yet corporate career. Also if you can ever see him give a lecture, it is one of the most enjoyable storytimes you'll ever have.
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Summary: Finding your creative spirit in the corporate environment!
Review: Gordon MacKenzie takes on the institutional hairball and the hairball we all wear between our ears. Both are the enemies of our uniquely human creative spirit. I was given this book by a friend who, like me, teaches creativity in the corporate environment. There is a great need to rescue the lost souls in our corporate confines and aiding in the much-needed healing of these spirits. It is our Creator-ness, our giftedness, that will bring life to our individual lives and then to our working relationships. Gordon's book takes this on with wit, candor, practical advice and real stories from his years of incarceration in the trenches at Hallmark. It is also a delightful visual feast--though I was disappointed that so little of Mr. MacKenzie's own artwork was not used in his book--especially since he refurs to it so often. "Hairball" is a grand companion to the books of SARK and Barbara Sher.
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Summary: Gordon MacKenzie is a GENIUS!
Review: This book is just simply amazing. I am a recent graduate with a graphic design degree, so I have not experienced the corporate environment to such big extremes, but it really helped me see creativity in a whole new perspective. Now I am armed with valuable knowledge when I orbit that "hairball!" Thank you Gordon!
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Summary: Filled with insight, wisdom, and inspiration .
Review: Great reading for anyone who feels the emotional drain of work, as though a part of your soul is dying from a daily deluge of political in-fighting, senseless decision-making and time-consuming justification for the smallest expense. The lessons learned are shared through storytelling of his often painful experiences, and in the process, offers an insider's view of the company, which turns out to be not so different from any other profit-making enterprise.
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Summary: A true Bible!
Review: This book is a true bible to all western world working people! Some of Gordon's adventures are almost surrealistic, and yet I didn't doubt their autheticity for a (never dull)moment. I read the whole book over one weekend, but will never be finished. Gordon Mackenzie is my kind of man! I wish I was one of the illustrators working with him on this project! (and It's beutiful).
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Summary: MacKenzie's keen insights useful beyond the workplace, too
Review: We were absolutely entranced! Perhaps because we never have had to survive in a really major corporate hairball, MacKenzie's observations and explanations became much more a personal issue. Would that all our psychologists and psychiatrists be as adept at observing people's behaviors, discerning their states of mind and explaining it for one and all without jargon or gobbledygook. An unpretentious masterpiece by a brilliant mind and an unassailably creative person, in OR out of the giant hairball.
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Summary: Fabulous!!
Review: A truly rewarding experience; to know that someone has survived corporate America with their passion in-tact. Striving to be a 'paradox' and a 'creative' are worth-while, albeit misunderstood, passions -- the author gives new hope to the ability and a way to mentally manage the effort of 'orbiting'. thanx a million!!
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