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The Imagination Machine
- How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Publisher's Summary
We need imagination now more than ever - to find opportunities in adversity, rethink our businesses, and discover new paths to growth. Yet too many companies have lost their ability to imagine. What is this mysterious capacity? How does imagination work? And how can organizations keep it alive and harness it systematically?
The Imagination Machine answers these questions and more. Drawing on the experience and insights of CEOs across several industries, as well as lessons from neuroscience, computer science, psychology, and philosophy, BCG's Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller provide a fascinating look into the mechanics of imagination and lay out a six-step process for creating ideas and bringing them to life.
Imagination is one of the least understood but most crucial ingredients of business success. It's what makes the difference between an incremental change and the kinds of pivots and paradigm shifts that are essential to success - especially during a crisis.
The Imagination Machine is the guide you need to demystify and operationalize this powerful human capacity, to inject new life into your company, and to head into unknown territory with the right tools by your side.
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- Darren H.
- 12-07-2023
Very applicable for today’s world
Audio quality was inconsistent in volume and equalisation making it difficult to hear in a noisy environment (like in a car)
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