Quantum Creativity

by Pamela Meyer

Book Overview

With nine simple principles and the wisdom of quantum physics, improvisation, and new management models, you can release creative passion in your workplace that will help you energize and innovate in every aspect of your job. Top management consultant and educator Pamela Meyer teaches you to improve Communication Morale Collaboration Participation Satisfaction Employee retention and recruiting "Finally a business book about seeing the extraordinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809224399
• ISBN13: 9780809224395
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Thought-Provoking, Well-Organized

Creativity is so important, readers are offered a wide range of books on the topic. This one has several advantages that make it worth the investment of your time and money.While it contains a lot of information, insight, and inspiration, this is not a long book that makes the acquisition of knowledge a laborious process. Less than 200 pages-tight and comfortable. The text is highly readable-nicely designed and easy on the eyes.The subject matter is well organized. Meyer offers nine principles, each succinctly presented in its own discreet chapter. The chapters are all presented in the same format, making it even easier for the reader to grasp the concepts. The principle is presented, followed by a section on Learned Blocks-the things that get in our way of applying the particular principle of creativity. The third section of each chapter is Doing Things Differently-how to get out of your own way and gain the greatest benefit from application of the learning.The language of the book is appropriate for smooth movement through the material. I didn't encounter stumbling blocks of words, phrases, or explanations that forced me to puzzle out what the author was saying. There's a sort of conversational tone, enriched by the author's personal anecdotes and illustrative stories about others' experiences with her creativity principles.The book closes with a valuable bibliography. No index-not needed. The author's background is broad and significant for the reader. She practices what she preaches as a consultant, professional speaker, and university instructor. Her background in improvisational theatre contributes to her expression of creativity in ways readers "get it."

It was only a mission statement...(thank you Cameron Crowe)

This beautiful book is an experience in what sustains,inspires and invigorates the soul.I believe this book is one of the first of what will eventually be seen as a reconciliation of the masculine and feminine principles in business,and more importantly,in life.Every time I pick this book up I learn something.Within these pages are are an invitation to discover yourself,to enroll and employ yourself as student and teacher in the only school or business that ever mattered,your life.

the abyss looked back

Ms. Meyer has written a book that not only describes her own experiences embracing Creativity, but also shares a range of observations and suggestions which WILL have an impact on your life. I always want to congratulate an artist for having the courage to be honest; for being brave enough to bare their soul; share their thoughts. Pamela deserves thanks for doing so in this book. Every artist who has ever risked ridicule -- or even worse, just plain obscurity -- deserves to know when their creation has touched someone. This book touched me and has made a difference in my life. What more could you want as a reader? To have faith in something as ethereal as Creativity requires a leap -- after all, faith is what you have when there is no reason whatsoever to have it. Following a Creative path can be challenging, often calling on resources that feel similar to faith. Pamela's clear articulation of her nine principals teases out the important differences between the universe happening around you and how you involve yourself in it. Look into the abyss -- it looks back. And it's thrilling.

Get the heck out of your box!

Ask anyone you work with today and they'll tell you they're working faster, keeping longer hours, have more goals and have less time and enthusiasm about their job. After reading this book, I'm convinced that by calling on my internal creative resources, I can overcome any business obstacle. What Pamela Meyer has done is written a terrific, easy-to-follow and more importantly, easy-to-apply book which helps us all get ourselves out of that box which says, tried it before, won't work, can't do it, or as Pamela puts it...the "YEAH BUT" syndrome. In business today, it's easy to throw up creativity roadblocks and give way to nay-sayers, in fact it happens several times per day. With Quantum Creativity, readers are given essential tools to combat yeah butters and convert them to "YES AND'ers" Pamela's book is so practical! Put it in your brief case and read the principle(s) that applies to you before you walk into any business, heck, any situation. This book tells you what successful people are doing to make shifts in the mind sets of co-workers who are standing in the way of progress. This book helps the reader understand how powerful creativty is without any techno jargan. Thanks Pamela for sharing Quantum Creativity with us all!

This book has many fascinating qualities.

The following originally appeared in the June/July 1998 issue of BrandPackaging Magazine.Review of Quantum Creativity, Nine Principles for a Life of Possibility Author: Pamela Meyer Publisher: Yezand Press, Chicago, 1997If creativity is a key element in developing packaging with impact, then you have to like a book that includes the word "galumphing". However, let's not get to specifics as yet. That is because this book should be viewed, this reviewer believes, as a "helicoptering" tool. It allows one to hover over the popular subject of creativity and observe it from a new perspective. That is one of the book's fascinating qualities. Pamela Meyer presents a broad scene of creativity, an infrastructure which allows one to see new opportunities. It is a book, therefore, which should be read before you read other creativity/innovation texts. That may be impossible, given the many books already available on the subject. So, maybe it should be read after all those others. Better yet, read it before and after. It's that good. In her Introduction, Ms. Meyer states "This book is not intended to define a specific experience for the reader. That would be arrogant and disrespectful." That is the type of considerate empathy she has for her readers. Because of this, each chapter can offer something quite personal for each reader's own thoughts, introspection and "re-cognition". That is a fine achievement for a creativity book. The book presents its holistic overview related, in part, to the author's improvisational theater experiences. Using these and surprisingly understandable quantum physics allusions, Ms. Meyer is able to move the reader away from purely mechanistic and linear thinking. Each of the nine principles - some more immediately accessible to this left brain reviewer than others - serve that purpose. Other readers, I am sure, will find their own insights in their own personally involved principle(s). That is, perhaps, another charm of the book: instant recognition of something quite specific to "lead you back to what you once spontaneously and intuitively knew." Each principle has its own chapter with its own visually creative symbol/logo. As further aids toward the re-acquisition of the process, toward "re-cognition", each principle is clarified by showing its antagonistic Learned Blocks and how we may progress by Doing Things Differently. At least one principle particularly began to gnaw on this reviewer's many blocks: Embrace Chaos. I have seen elements of this principle presented in many ways by John Cleese, Roger von Oech, Carl Jung ("In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.") and others. Ms. Meyer's Chapter 7 parsimoniously affirms them all. What is "galumphing"? Exploration just for the fun of it, I think. Galumph through this book then study and re-study the Nine Principles for a Life of Possibility. Whether you are a team member, a manager, a graphic designer, a copy writer, an editor, a printer