Yes, and: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration (CD) (ISBN-13: 9781504615099)

Executives from the Second City--the world's premier comedy theater and school of improvisation--reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses.For more than fifty years, the Second City comedy theater in Chicago has been a training ground for some of the best comic minds in the industry--including John Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Mike Myers, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Tina Fey. But it also provides one-of-a-kind leadership training to cutting-edge companies, nonprofits, and public sector organizations--all aimed at increasing creativity, collaboration, and teamwork.The rules for leadership and teamwork have changed, and the skills that got professionals ahead a generation ago don't work anymore. Now The Second City provides a new toolkit individuals and organizations can use to thrive in a world increasingly shaped by speed, social communication, and decentralization. Based on eight principles of improvisation, Yes, And helps to develop these skills and foster them in high-potential leaders and their teams. Skills include: mastering the ability to co-create in an ensemble;fostering a "yes, and" approach to work;embracing failure to accelerate high performance;leading by listening and by learning to follow;innovating by making something out of nothing.Yes, And is a must-read for professionals and organizations, helping to develop the invaluable leadership skills needed to succeed today.

Author: Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton
ISBN-10: 1504615093
ISBN-13: 9781504615099
Publisher: HarperCollins
Language: English
Published: 02/03/2015
Format: CD
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 5.70h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Audio File 08/01/2015 pg. 51 - Exceptional Presentation
Audio File Best Nonf & Culture 12/01/2015 pg. 26