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Gamestorming

By Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
$19.79 | Now available!

We’re moving from an industrial to a knowledge economy, where creativity and innovation will be the keys to value. New rules apply. Yet 200 years of industrial habits are embedded in our workplaces, our schools and our system of government. How must we change our work practices to win in the 21st century?

Gamestorming is a playbook for people who want to design the future, to change the world, to make, break and innovate. It’s a rough-and-ready toolkit for inventors, explorers and change agents who want to use design thinking to navigate successfully in complex and uncertain knowledge and information spaces, to engage others, and to start, grow and sustain movements for change.

Gamestorming is full of practical, proven solutions to common workplace challenges. Learn how to engage people in your project, to get better traction and move more quickly with groups, to make things happen and get better, faster decisions and results.

• Use techniques to engage your team and help members collaborate effectively
• Get “silent resisters” to reveal their concerns so they can be discussed and resolved
• Generate ideas that may otherwise be lost
• Identify the root cause of a problem, and determine points of greatest leverage
• Turn common office supplies into powerful enablers for visual thinking
• Learn the visual alphabet: Twelve simple shapes that will enable you to clearly and concisely draw anything you can possibly imagine
• Learn more and join the community here: www.gogamestorm.com

Selling to the VP of No!

By Dave Gray
$19.95 | Why read this book? Because you want somebody to do something. You want them to buy your product, invest in your idea, give you a raise, or increase your budget. And they don?t want to.

In short, you need to learn how to sell. Selling is the art of getting someone from “NO” to “GO.” This book will share secrets from some of the world?s most successful salespeople: The Selling Stars. But there are a few things it will not do.

It will not show you how to manipulate people against their will.

It will not show you how to sell someone something they don?t want or how to get people to do things that are not in their best interest.

It will not show you how to use pressure, guilt, or emotional manipulation to get what you want.

But if you truly have something valuable to offer, this book will show you how to break through the wall of indifference, so people “get it.” When people “get it,” they will buy your product, invest in your idea, give you that raise, or increase your budget. And you will be a Selling Star.

Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century

By Robert Horn
$39.95 | Throughout history words and images have occupied separate domains. We have been forced to think of ourselves as either word people or visual people. In this provocative and pathfinding book, Robert Horn shows how that wide gulf is at last being bridged. He makes a compelling case for considering visual language ? the tight integration of words and visual elements ? a truly new language with the distinct syntax and semantics expected of a language.

By his use of visual language on every page, Horn demonstrates that it is an immensely flexible and effective communication tool and one that invites and delights us. Readers will not only learn about visual language, but will have the full experience of total immersion. They will experience what Horn calls a new multi-modal process of reading, simultaneously demanding and rewarding.