Robert Poynton

Do Improvise

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Everyday we deal with the unplanned and the unexpected – from a broken toaster to losing (or gaining) a major client. Our natural ability to improvise gets us through. But we feel as if we’re winging it, rather than acting with courage and conviction. Robert Poynton teaches an acclaimed method to some of the world’s biggest brands and companies. Improvisational skills that an actor might use on stage are honed and applied to the everyday business of work and life. The end result is a new approach that embraces change as a natural process and has creativity and innovation at its heart. With killer games to put the theory into practice, Do Improvise will help you: Become more productive without trying harder; Overcome creative blocks and generate new ideas; Respond fluently to circumstances beyond your control; Inspire and motivate others.Not sure what to do next? Improvise.
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148 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
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  • Anna Biryukovahas quoted4 years ago
    Nietzsche, himself a great thinker, famously suggested that all great ideas are conceived by walking. Since body and mind are integrated, not separate, ideas can just as well flow from the body to the mind as the other way round. Both paths are valid
  • Anna Biryukovahas quoted4 years ago
    If he isn’t having fun, he will change what he is doing. This doesn’t mean giving up, or going off in a huff, it means asking himself how he could act differently to make things more fun. This requires presence of mind and discipline. It also requires being willing to be changed (i.e. being prepared to be wrong)
  • Anna Biryukovahas quoted4 years ago
    Play around with things at the edge of what is normal or known. Read a magazine you would never normally pick up. Rabbit Owners Monthly will show you a whole world you didn’t know existed (and thus, if nothing else, the limits to your own). Speak to someone you don’t know. Eat different food. Allow yourself to wander off rather than always ‘pushing on’. Look up. Look sideways. Fertile territory often lies in the margins or overlaps.

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