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

Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace | Gordon MacKenzie | Ignore How It Looks

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	Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace Gordon MacKenzie Viking Adult, 1998 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 111 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Entering Gordon's Orbit

While reading the reviews of this book, I felt a sense of fraternity. The vast majority of reviewers who could relate to and enjoy the book all said the things that I felt as I absorbed Gordon MacKenzie's thoughts.

These ideas were first presented to me during one of Gordon's workshops in the early '90s. Our local Advertising Club invited him to our city to inspire those of us working on the creative side of the broadcast & print media. I recall the workshop being very entertaining, but the highlight was during the 10 minute break. That's when I met Gordon... standing next to me at a urinal. I told I was enjoying his presentation. He laughed, hoping that I meant his presentation in the conference room rather than his presentation in the restroom. He even made light of it when the workshop resumed. The memory of that afternoon always puts a smile on my face.

My ultimate Hairball wouldn't present itself until nearly a decade later. By then I was a manager. One day a business associate referred to the project at hand as a Hairball... it caught my attention immediatly and I soon learned that my associate had been at the same workshop a decade before. That night I searched for Gordon MacKenzie on the Internet... I found his book... and I learned, sadly, of his death.

Several more years have passed and the contents of this book now mean so much more to me than they did the first time I read it. Today I'm directing a rapidly expanding business within the confines of an old-school corporation. The orbit is far from stable, but my team of up-and-coming orbiters are doing their damnedest to keep us from getting sucked back into the Hairball. Thank you for the guide book, Gordon. Someday I hope to cross paths with you again.

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Ignore How It Looks

This book sat on my shelf for five years before I ran out of things to read and picked it up. Had I know then what I know now, I would have dropped everything and read it then and there. Mr. Mackenzie encourages individual thinking and creative looks at how things can be in a corporate culture, where dollars and cents are more important than pressing forward and being truly innovative. There is not a business where this sort of creativity cannot be applied.

a must read for everyone in leadership

This is a delightfully playful book which gets to the core of employee motivation, innovation and involvement. Via great anecdotal stories and illustrations Gordon MacKenzie captures how corporate management culture easily evolves from being innovative and enabling to being obstacle ridden and rule bound. I've given over 30 copies to my direct reports.

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Must Have for Designers

As a professor in the field of graphic design, I've found this book useful and inspirational. It gives a great perspective on maintaining your creative integrity in a business environment. I recommend it to all my graduating students as they prepare for creative careers in the "real world". It's an easy read with delightful illustrations and loaded with relevant advice. I actually own more than one copy because I loan it out on a regular basis.

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