Orbiting the Giant Hairball


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Hardcover
224 pages
ISBN 9780670879830 Published April 1998
Penguin Putnam
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Orbiting the Giant Hairball
A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace

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A visionary exploration of how to be creative in (and in spite of) a corporation

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 MacKenzie 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.


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