✨ New Arrivals Just Dropped!Explore
HomeStore

Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace

Product image 1
1 / 2

Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace

Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, many of which he spent inspiring his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy and rise to orbit--to a mode of dreaming, daring and doing above and beyond the rubber-stamp confines of the administrative mind-set. In his deeply funny book, exuberantly illustrated in full color, he shares the story of his own professional evolution, together with lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius.

Originally self-published and already a business "cult classic", this personally empowering and entertaining look at the intersection between human creativity and the bottom line is now widely available to bookstores. It will be a must-read for any manager looking for new ways to invigorate employees, and any professional who wants to achieve his or her best, most self-expressive, most creative and fulfilling work.

$10.50

Original: $30.00

-65%
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace—

$30.00

$10.50

Product Information

Shipping & Returns

Description

Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, many of which he spent inspiring his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy and rise to orbit--to a mode of dreaming, daring and doing above and beyond the rubber-stamp confines of the administrative mind-set. In his deeply funny book, exuberantly illustrated in full color, he shares the story of his own professional evolution, together with lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius.

Originally self-published and already a business "cult classic", this personally empowering and entertaining look at the intersection between human creativity and the bottom line is now widely available to bookstores. It will be a must-read for any manager looking for new ways to invigorate employees, and any professional who wants to achieve his or her best, most self-expressive, most creative and fulfilling work.

You may also like

-65%NEW
Thumbnail 1

Thinking, Fast and Slow

$38.00

$13.30

-65%NEW
Thumbnail 1Thumbnail 2

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves (Updated)

$23.00

$8.05

-65%NEW
Thumbnail 1

Now, Discover Your Strengths: The Revolutionary Gallup Program That Shows You How to Develop Your Unique Talents and Strengths

$39.95

$13.98

-65%NEW
Thumbnail 1

To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design

$19.00

$6.65

-65%NEW
Thumbnail 1

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

$20.00

$7.00

NEW
Thumbnail 1

The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management

$21.99

-65%NEW
Thumbnail 1

Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution

$19.99

$7.00

-65%NEW
Thumbnail 1

Zag: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands

$32.99

$11.55

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

$22.95

NEW
Thumbnail 1

A New Brand World: 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Century

$24.00

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Revised)

$32.50

NEW
Thumbnail 1

Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition

$18.99