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Upend your personal status quo and reclaim your natural creativity in every single action you take

Everyone claims to value creativity, and businesses are clamouring for disruptive thinking and innovation. Yet we often feel creatively stifled at work, because business processes seem to leave no room for real originality. In this climate, it takes a heroic effort to reclaim our status as independent thinkers, to bring meaning and joy to our work lives and to make lasting changes that will bring value to everyone around us. In Everyday Creative, culture and creative leadership expert Mykel Dixon reveals what’s holding us back from our full creative potential and explains how we can reclaim our original, vibrant selves.

Is your ability to think differently hindered by an unconscious view that creativity doesn’t belong in the boardroom? It’s an all-too-common mistake, but the truth is, creativity is fundamental for business growth and personal fulfilment. If you want to survive in the digital era, you need to pursue your own creative sensibilities and foster creativity in your team. This book shows that original thinking can shake things up, becoming the source of our competitive advantage and a key driver of sustainable success.

  • Recognise your own unconventional talent and creative potential
  • Transform yourself into a more vibrant and resilient human being ready to lead the world in the fourth industrial revolution
  • Cultivate dynamic team environments where people feel safe to explore dangerous ideas
  • Instigate a high-level cultural and strategic pivot toward more creativity in your company

Everyday Creative is about creative leadership and the courage to seek, nurture and liberate original thinking. Read this book to learn how to make the essential skill of creativity accessible to all people, regardless of role, title or department.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. About Mykel
  3. A Story
  4. Introduction
  5. How To Read This Book
  6. Part One Preparing The Canvas
    1. Chapter One An Identity Crisis
    2. Compelled to close the conference
    3. Blame Tay Tay
    4. School’s out
    5. Unhelpful stereotypes
    6. Battle scars
    7. Any good news?
    8. The six creative identities
    9. Notes
    10. Chapter Two The Obstacle Is The Way
    11. Problem #1: Disengagement
    12. Problem #2: Disconnection
    13. Problem #3: Disillusionment
    14. What if I told you there was another way?
    15. A new demand for creativity
    16. A global shift
    17. The robots are coming!!!
    18. The opportunity
    19. From conflict to creativity
    20. Notes
    21. Chapter Three A Radical Rebirth
    22. You’ve got to be original
    23. Originality is intentional
    24. Finding your originality
    25. To the lighthouse
    26. A robotic reminder
    27. Notes
  7. Part Two Developing The Practice
    1. Chapter Four The Courage To Seek
    2. From contempt to curiosity
    3. Firefox vs Safari
    4. Surrender the script
    5. Making work work for you
    6. Born to seek
    7. Resistance to rumination
    8. The real danger
    9. How to be more curious
    10. The gift of Vuja De
    11. Notes
    12. Chapter Five The Courage To Feel
    13. Feeling is the new thinking
    14. Experience is everything
    15. Barriers to feeling
    16. Harness the feels
    17. A few figures to consider
    18. A final consideration
    19. Notes
    20. Chapter Six The Courage To Make
    21. What it means to make
    22. F.E.A.R.
    23. The risks of mitigating risk
    24. The antidote
    25. Begin again, again
    26. A final thought
    27. Notes
    28. Chapter Seven The Courage To Give
    29. A spirit of generosity
    30. Belief #1: We worry that our ideas will be corrupted by others (eek!)
    31. Belief #2: We worry that we’ll be exploited by others (ouch!)
    32. Belief #3: We worry that our ideas are worthless to others (sigh!)
    33. It’s not us, it’s you and me
    34. Scenius
    35. Give like an improviser
    36. Look for the not obvious
    37. Humble yourself with gratitude
    38. Notes
  8. Part Three Making Your Masterpiece
    1. Chapter Eight Little Things
    2. Five flavour enhancers for the fabulous
    3. Notes
    4. Chapter Nine A Big Thing
    5. Notes
  9. A Final Thing
  10. Where To From Here?
  11. Gratitude
  12. Sources
  13. Index
  14. End User License Agreement
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