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Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity
by
Josh Linkner
A 5-part process that will transform your organization -- or your career -- into a non-stop creativity juggernautWe live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity-at all levels of an organization. "Disciplined Dreaming" shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower...more
Hardcover, 235 pages
Published
February 22nd 2011
by Jossey-Bass
(first published January 13th 2011)
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Apr 25, 2012
Soundview Executive Book Summaries
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Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity by Josh Linkner was chosen by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as one of the Top 30 Business Books of 2011. It was also selected by Soundview as the winner of the Harold Longman Award for being the Best Business Book of 2011.
THE SOUNDVIEW REVIEW:
Creativity is often mislabeled as a mysterious force. The concept dates back to ancient history when poets and musicians were beholden to muses or gods for moments of creative brill...more
THE SOUNDVIEW REVIEW:
Creativity is often mislabeled as a mysterious force. The concept dates back to ancient history when poets and musicians were beholden to muses or gods for moments of creative brill...more
This is a really great book. It has tons of ideas to spark creativity in the office and exlplore ideas. It also addresses how the loudest person can overtake a brainstorming session and gives ideas on how to hold sessions so that everyone is encouraged to participate and take part in the discussion without one idea dominating and crippling further ideas from emerging. Some of my favorite things! p. 108- Issue an "outrageous" idea contest. See who comes up with the most outrageous or stupid idea....more
So this is the problem. This book is for business people in a business environment, its not for a person trying to write their next big hit. Second thing is that you have to actually DO the things in the book over and over and tweak them over and over until they are yours. You can not read it and say "i'm now creative." I used the techniques at work with my team and it worked. We didn't come up with the next "post-it notes" or a cure for AIDS, but we all had renewed energy to evaluate our own cr...more
This book was advertised as a "system to drive breakthrough creativity" but the book was just a bunch of tips and tricks that the author has learned over the years, nothing really breakthrough.
I know its usually good to draw from your own experiences and and convey those experiences though storytelling, but in Disciplined Dreaming i felt like a lot of it was a sales pitch for why ePrize was so great. The references to jazz music also started to drag on and found a way to seep its way into every...more
I know its usually good to draw from your own experiences and and convey those experiences though storytelling, but in Disciplined Dreaming i felt like a lot of it was a sales pitch for why ePrize was so great. The references to jazz music also started to drag on and found a way to seep its way into every...more
I have been trying to determine my next career move for quite some time now, so picked this up in the hopes it could help me.
As a disclaimer, it's been almost a month since I read this. I'm usually so good about getting things down on here right away, but I've been slacking. :)
With that being said - I'll do my best to review this properly.
Written by Josh Linkner - the founder of ePrize in Michigan (which I didn't know) - the book gives helpful tips on how you can become more creative in your ev...more
As a disclaimer, it's been almost a month since I read this. I'm usually so good about getting things down on here right away, but I've been slacking. :)
With that being said - I'll do my best to review this properly.
Written by Josh Linkner - the founder of ePrize in Michigan (which I didn't know) - the book gives helpful tips on how you can become more creative in your ev...more
Good book that makes a strong case for creativity in the workplace. More than that, creativity will be the most sought out competency in potential candidates. Linkner does a great job of giving the reader a path to creativity by breaking it down into steps. Naturally, just following the steps isn't going to get you there necessarily but it is a great way to start. Especially for those workplaces where creativity is seriously depleted or nonexistent. The book is chock full of great ideas and exer...more
After getting past the boring, oft told stories regarding the brilliance of Zappos, what really struck me reading this book was the emphasis on the importance of cultural symbolism in a corporate environment. Culture is often given lip service but is rarely seen in pragmatic displays of any meaning. Countries have visible cultural symbols and traditions that remind us who we are. Businesses need the same reinforcement on a regular basis. Corporate culture needs conscious development that goes be...more
I read this book 2.5 months ago and am just getting to the place of evaluating it, so my insights might not be the freshest!
Here is the strengths of the boo:
1. It provides a system for thinking creatively. The premise of the book (which I fully agree with) is that if we have a system for creativity then we don't have to think creatively about how to be creative. So often truly creative people fail to move out of the realm of ideas and into the realm of making their ideas happen. This book provid...more
Here is the strengths of the boo:
1. It provides a system for thinking creatively. The premise of the book (which I fully agree with) is that if we have a system for creativity then we don't have to think creatively about how to be creative. So often truly creative people fail to move out of the realm of ideas and into the realm of making their ideas happen. This book provid...more
I finished this book 4 days ago and I am applying nothing from its content, nor does anything applicable readily come to mind. This is an immediate fail. The book was self-indulgent speculation with a few widely known research-based facts half-heartedly tossed in - to make it seem worthwhile. It wasn't.
In fact, it was somewhat tortuous listening to it. The author uses jazz analogy to an extent that becomes unbearable and destructive to anything that may have been useful. Not recommended. Jason R...more
In fact, it was somewhat tortuous listening to it. The author uses jazz analogy to an extent that becomes unbearable and destructive to anything that may have been useful. Not recommended. Jason R...more
Josh Linkner spends so much time telling you what his "proven system" is going to do for you, but spends little time actually describing his system. The gist of it all is that creativity and innovation are necessities to be successful in business. One way to generate creativity is to put limitations on the project to give the mind space to come up with interesting solutions. I found the book to be mostly derivative
Meh--
The book does give some useful tips for allowing creativity to happen, but there's nothing really new or surprising in here. Maybe a few grunt-inducing points, and that's it.
It almost feels as though the author compiled everything he heard and regurgitated it. The effect is you'll probably put this book down (or finish listening) feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of tips. Though the author bills this as a "system," it's important to realize that "systems" and "processes" are very much...more
The book does give some useful tips for allowing creativity to happen, but there's nothing really new or surprising in here. Maybe a few grunt-inducing points, and that's it.
It almost feels as though the author compiled everything he heard and regurgitated it. The effect is you'll probably put this book down (or finish listening) feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of tips. Though the author bills this as a "system," it's important to realize that "systems" and "processes" are very much...more
Apr 02, 2011
Deborah
is currently reading it
I've just started reading the book after hearing Josh speak this past week at a local college. Started out slow for me, but now that I've gotten to the chapters with case studies, I'm enjoying it more.
Interesting, but a little to vague for my tastes. I was hoping for more of a cookbook of exercises for generating creativity, than a philosophy of creativity.
Along the lines of Thinkertoys and others, some simple techniques for looking at creative challenges in different ways.
kinda wish the book was more non business related but it was alright
Analytical techniques and ideas for business creativity and brainstorming. Mostly for corporate-minded and companies.
This book had some great ideas for helping individuals and businesses find their creative spark. It dispelled the myth that accountants and analytic types are unable to be creative - I liked that part. The author lays out a framework that provides some structure while not dampening the atmosphere that creativity needs to thrive. I enjoyed many of the ideas presented and even took some of the suggested steps to becoming more creative in everyday situations.
This is a cook book. If you need a recipe for developing creativity, then here is your answer. That's why the first word in the title is "Disciplined." The author, who happens to be the founder and chairman of ePRIZE, produced the book as a guide to developing creativity. There is just too much order and discipline for my tastes, but that doesn't take anything away from the value of the book for those who don't naturally tend toward too much abstract-random creativity already.
good book to skim & use as reference; lots of good ideas
This book compares the process of creative thinking to the process of improvisation in jazz music and provides a framework to generate creativity. It has a surprising variety of individual and group activities to stimulate creative thinking. Favorite quote: "Curiousity is the most powerful thing you own." James Cameron
Interesting only towards the end. A rehash of a lot of ideas found elsewhere, though I resonated with the fact he's a musician and consciously applying jazz improvisation techniques to business and marketing.
This book as a long drawn out version of everything I learned in my Advertising class. But in a much more extended version. I felt like we were beating the creative brief to death.
Great ideas on how to master the art of innovation and focus on culture, processes and thinking to create a dynamic platform to achieve.
not terrible, but not terribly informative either.
Chock full of great ideas on how to nuture creativity.
May 16, 2013
Nathania
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