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Disciplined Dreaming

Disciplined Dreaming

By Josh Linkner

A 5-part process that will transform your organization -- or your career -- into a non-stop creativity juggernaut We live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years.

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Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Publish Date: 02/22/2011
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780470922224
ISBN-10: 0470922222
Language: English

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December 22, 2011

Over the course of this week, we will be introducing, by category, the candidates for the 2011 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. Even though only one of the candidates can win the big prize, good business books deserve an audience, and perhaps one on this list will be the winning book. . READ FULL DESCRIPTION

November 29, 2011

Posting the strategy + business list before the Thanksgiving break reminded me that we haven't seen quite as many "best of 2011" business lists at this point of year as we have in years past. Beside the Goldman Sachs/FT award and s+b's list, The only two I've seen have come from booksellers—Amazon and Hudson. Amazon's Best Books of 2011 were announced earlier this month. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

June 27, 2011

Amazon's books editors have announced their "2011 Best Books of the Year So Far" list. I don't recall them putting out a mid-year list in the past, but it's a great idea and they've picked some very worthy titles. Their top ten in the Business & Investing category are: Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz, Rodale Press Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by David Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright, Harper Paperbacks (the paperback release of the authors' 2008 book) In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy, Simon & Schuster Poke the Box by Seth Godin, The Domino Project - Powered by Amazon Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity by Josh Linkner, Jossey-Bass We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World by Simon Mainwaring, Palgrave MacMillan The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk, HarperBusiness Beyond Wealth: The Road Map to a Rich Life by Alexander Green, John Wiley & Sons Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything by John Mauldin, John Wiley & Sons On that list, Disciplined Dreaming author Josh Linkner contributed a manifesto to the February issue of ChangeThis, and we have a manifesto from Simon Mainwaring coming on July 6. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

March 20, 2012

On June 6-8 2012, Inc. Magazine will be hosting its Inc. Leadership Forum in Miami, Fl. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

January 04, 2012

What was the Best Business Book written in 2011? Watch this 90 second video and find out more. Ok, so we didn't tell you what the best book was. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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A 5-part process that will transform your organization -- or your career -- into a non-stop creativity juggernaut

We 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 all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Linkner distills his years of experience in business and jazz -- as well as hundreds of interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and artists -- into a 5-step process that will make creativity easy for you and your organization. The methodology is simple, backed by proven results.

  • Empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to meet creative challenges posed by the marketplace
  • Turns the mystery of creativity into a simple-to-use process
  • Shows how creativity can be used for everything from innovative, game-shifting breakthroughs to incremental advances and daily improvements to business processes
  • Offers dozens of practical exercises, thought-starters, workouts to grow "creative muscles," and case studies

Disciplined Dreaming shows even the stuffiest corporate bureaucracies how to cultivate creativity in order to become more competitive in today's shifting marketplace.

#4 New York Times Best Seller (Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous)

#8 New York Times Best Seller (Hardcover Business)

#2 Wall Street Journal Best Seller (Hardcover Business)

#9 Wall Street Journal Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction)

#9 Washington Post Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction)

#1 USA Today Best Seller (Money)

#10 Entertainment Weekly Best Seller (Hardcover Nonfiction)

#10 Publishers Weekly Bestseller (Hardcover Nonfiction)

About the Author

Josh Linkner is the CEO of Detroit Venture Partners, playing a key role in the turnaround of Detroit, Michigan. He is the founder and former CEO of four successful tech companies including ePrize, the largest interactive promotion agency in the world.

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