| Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace | 
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Sales Rank: 7712
Category: Book
Author: Gordon Mackenzie
Publisher: Viking Adult
Studio: Viking Adult
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Label: Viking Adult
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0670879835
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9780670879830
ASIN: 0670879835
Publication Date: April 1, 1998
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Product 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.
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 A hairball like no other January 8, 2009
This book is a must read for anyone that works in the corporate setting, or has to deal with the big "C." Fantastic real-work situational stories, insights and humor untouched by any other corporate survival book. The best hairball you've ever seen!
Very funny and a quick must read for creative corporate types January 6, 2009
Illustrations are beautiful, the chapters short and very entertaining. A must read for creative corporate souls.
 Blah, blah, blah December 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wish I could give this book a zero. There's no THERE there. Do not waste your time or your money.
Giant Hairball - what the heck is that, I thought September 18, 2008
It took me a while and even though a good friend from Brussels had talked about the "Giant Hairball" some months ago it didn't come close to me to put it on my reading list.
As Gordon MacKenzie is writing in this amazingly insightful and joyfully written book, it needed a real new approach:
While being over at my friend's place a couple weeks for a job interview, heading for my train to a tournament in Amsterdam he said, "Here take this book. I always have several ones on stock on my shelf to borrow to friends. Please send it back to me when you have finished reading it!".
That was an unusual starting of a fruitful connection:-)
Gordon MacKenzie has the ability to tell daily work problems in a way that you feel directly connected as you see through his stories into your own life at work. You realize that staying in the comfort zone where you comply to the company's procedures is really not fulfilling.
Always try to get into the orbit outside the regular procedures create something new and reconnect with the inner company "hairball".
Every story in the remarkably illustrated book makes you laugh and rethink the future (life and work:-)).
The change you would like to see in the world is done by you taking the first step. You will see the system will change:-))
Cheers,
Ralf Lippold, Leipzig
Brilliant September 7, 2008
I've been buying this book for a decade; I've bought dozens of copies. It has been a welcome gift for all new clients in my agency. The art direction is just wonderful and it echoes Gordon's innovative way of seeing everything. Reading it just made me want to go to the office just to shake things up for the better.
It's brilliant, fun and funny. You can sit down and read it through, or nibble at it in small bites.
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