Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses ''no, But'' Thinking And Improves Creativity And Collaboration --(lessons From The Second City)
by Kelly Leonard /
2015 / English / PDF
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[Read by Alan Winter]
[Read by Alan Winter]Yes, And
Yes, And is a must-read for professionals and
organizations, helping to develop the invaluable leadership skills
needed to succeed today.
is a must-read for professionals and
organizations, helping to develop the invaluable leadership skills
needed to succeed today.
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.
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.
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,
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
Yes, And helps to
develop these skills and foster them in high-potential leaders and
their teams. Skills include:
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;
-mastering the ability to co-create in an ensemble;
-fostering a ''yes, and'' approach to work; -embracing failure to
accelerate high performance;
-fostering a ''yes, and'' approach to work; -embracing failure to
accelerate high performance;
-leading by listening and by learning to follow;
-leading by listening and by learning to follow;
-innovating by making something out of nothing.
-innovating by making something out of nothing.