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Work together to up your chances of business success
The Art of Making Sh!t Up combines the lessons learned from a personal journey with the teachings derived from years of honing valuable skills through performing and presenting to thousands of people to demonstrate how working together has helped others found and grow several multimillion-dollar companies.
By focusing on topics that serve as pain points and detailing the tools and techniques of improv, this book helps people and organizations utilize new skill sets to be more productive, more accepting, and more "all in" to create a stronger teammate and team.
Remove the fear of failure
Recognize when and how to trust your instincts
Celebrate and embrace the ideas of others
Listen effectively--to both people and your environment
Thinking is hard. Listening is easy--and is most often the springboard to huge ideas. Find out how it can work for you with The Art of Making Sh!t Up.
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NORM LAVIOLETTE is the Co-founder of Improv Asylum, IA innovation, Laugh Boston and Asylum Gaming and Esports (AGE). He leads Improv Asylum and IA Innovation's strategic business and artistic vision locally, nationally and globally. Norm has firsthand experience in building companies from start-up to multimillion-dollar businesses. Norm knows why culture is integral to long-term success and has built a team that exemplifies why communicating, listening and trusting are so important.
Klappentext
Discover how a creative mindset can help you live up to your potential, remove fear, and embrace innovation
Norm Laviolette has honed his talents through performing and presenting to thousands of people over the years. His unique comedy-inspired corporate training programs have been wildly successful, helping organizations such as Intel, Google, Twitter, and Nokia enhance their corporate cultures, strengthen teamwork and leadership, and instill powerful communication skills. His innovative blend of improvisation techniques and effective team-building methods has inspired and motivated people around the world.
The Art of Making Sh!t Up: Using the Principles of Improv to Become an Unstoppable Powerhouse shares the lessons Norm has learned from his personal experiences founding and growing several multimillion-dollar companies. This engaging, lively, and sometimes irreverent book enables anyone to discover, develop, and employ their creative mindset. Unforgettable chapterswith titles such as Ushers, Vomit, and Why People Clean Bathrooms, The Fear of Looking Stupid, Patiently Impatient, and People Don't think About You as Much As You Think They Dotake readers on a humorous, yet meaningful, journey to creative freedom, personal growth, and professional success. The Art of Making Sh!t Up enables readers to:
Zusammenfassung
Work together to up your chances of business success
The Art of Making Sh!t Up combines the lessons learned from a personal journey with the teachings derived from years of honing valuable skills through performing and presenting to thousands of people to demonstrate how working together has helped others found and grow several multimillion-dollar companies.
By focusing on topics that serve as pain points and detailing the tools and techniques of improv, this book helps people and organizations utilize new skill sets to be more productive, more accepting, and more "all in" to create a stronger teammate and team.
Inhalt
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 I Am Who I Say I Am
Chapter 2 Aggressive Listening
Chapter 3 Building Off Other People's Ideas
Chapter 4 Jumping On The Spark
Chapter 5 The Fear of Looking stupid
Chapter 6 People Don't think About You as Much As You Think They Do
Chapter 7 Facing Failure: Be Wrong To Be Right
Chapter 8 Heightening
Chapter 9 Yes And Maybe No
Chapter 10 Small Decisions Add Up
Chapter 11 The Cult Factor
Chapter 12 Patiently Impatient
Chapter 13 Pain Tolerance
Chapter 14 Luck Is Like A Train
Chapter 15 Fire The Assholes
Chapter 16 Ushers, Vomit, and Why People Clean Bathrooms
Chapter 17 Diversity Is A Choice
Chapter 18 Are You Worth $10 An Hour?
Chapter 19 Nobody Knows Anything
Chapter 20 Who Gives A Shit?
Chapter 21 Everything I Know In Business I Learned From Coaching Girls Softball
Chapter 22 Trapped In The Bowels of the Grand Bazaar
Chapter 23 The Ambassador and the Bathroom
Chapter 24 China Talk
Author's Notes on Shit
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index