TY - BOOK AU - Linkner,Josh ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Disciplined dreaming: a proven system to drive breakthrough creativity AV - HD53 .L56 2011eb U1 - 650.1 22 PY - 2011/// CY - San Francisco PB - Jossey-Bass KW - Creative ability in business KW - Success in business KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-217) and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - "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."-- UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/gulbargauniversity/Doc?id=10441500 ER -