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Go With It: Embrace the Unexpected to Drive Change
Count the number of times you’ve said “no” to an idea. Whether you inadvertently put out a spark of brilliance or nixed a nonstarter, your response took away someone else’s opportunity to feel heard. And that’s an innovation killer.
No one knows this truth better than improv expert Karen Hough. Go With Embrace the Unexpected to Drive Change brings you Hough’s discoveries from the front lines of innovation. She has seen how business innovators deal with dichotomy by preparing, playing, and thinking upside down. Improv troupes succeed on stage because they apply the “Yes, and” principle. Whatever the first person says, the next person affirms and adds to it. But this practice isn’t limited to onstage brilliance—corporate teams caught up in old patterns of thought and action can learn to improvise and innovate, too. Pharmaceutical scientists who know how to improvise can accelerate their fuzzy front-end work on new drugs. Technologists who are masters of going with it know how to successfully bring their breakthroughs to market. Executives who use improv techniques get their teams working and innovating together. Their stories fill this book. And they emphasize that it’s the process of listening, agreeing, and discussing an idea that’s monumentally important. .
Hough shows you that anyone can learn to be more creative and innovative. It just takes flexibility, humor, and focus—that’s improv .
No one knows this truth better than improv expert Karen Hough. Go With Embrace the Unexpected to Drive Change brings you Hough’s discoveries from the front lines of innovation. She has seen how business innovators deal with dichotomy by preparing, playing, and thinking upside down. Improv troupes succeed on stage because they apply the “Yes, and” principle. Whatever the first person says, the next person affirms and adds to it. But this practice isn’t limited to onstage brilliance—corporate teams caught up in old patterns of thought and action can learn to improvise and innovate, too. Pharmaceutical scientists who know how to improvise can accelerate their fuzzy front-end work on new drugs. Technologists who are masters of going with it know how to successfully bring their breakthroughs to market. Executives who use improv techniques get their teams working and innovating together. Their stories fill this book. And they emphasize that it’s the process of listening, agreeing, and discussing an idea that’s monumentally important. .
Hough shows you that anyone can learn to be more creative and innovative. It just takes flexibility, humor, and focus—that’s improv .
120 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2017
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About the author
Karen Hough
10 books4 followersKaren Hough is the Founder & CEO of ImprovEdge, and the author of “The Improvisation Edge: Secrets to Building Trust and Radical Collaboration at Work.” Her book was a #1 Bestseller on Amazon and also made the Top 25 Business Books on 800-CEO-READ. ImprovEdge received the silver Stevie International Award for “Most Innovative Company of the Year 2012” for Women in Business. She has been using improvisation as an engaging learning tool for business for over 12 years, is the recipient of the Athena Powerlink Award for outstanding woman-owned business, the author of the Yes! Deck, in addition to articles and blogs. Karen is working on her second book which will be published in 2014, "Be the Best Bad Presenter Ever: Break the Rules, Make Mistakes and Win Them Over."
She speaks nationally on diversity, negotiation, leadership, sales, presentation and women’s issues. She trained with Chicago’s Second City and enjoyed a career in stage and film, performing in over 100 live and filmed productions. Her next life involved working as a successful executive in network engineering for many years, and finally she became an entrepreneur. ImprovEdge has a presence in six cities nationwide and a client list including ESPN, Turner Broadcasting, Coach, OhioHealth, Jones Day and Nationwide Insurance to name a few.
She is a graduate of Yale University and La Sorbonne, Paris IV, and she lives with her husband and three children in Ohio.
She speaks nationally on diversity, negotiation, leadership, sales, presentation and women’s issues. She trained with Chicago’s Second City and enjoyed a career in stage and film, performing in over 100 live and filmed productions. Her next life involved working as a successful executive in network engineering for many years, and finally she became an entrepreneur. ImprovEdge has a presence in six cities nationwide and a client list including ESPN, Turner Broadcasting, Coach, OhioHealth, Jones Day and Nationwide Insurance to name a few.
She is a graduate of Yale University and La Sorbonne, Paris IV, and she lives with her husband and three children in Ohio.
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