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Altidor Welby. Creative Courage
DEDICATION
KINDNESS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Past and Present Clash
The Uncertainty of Transformation
Making Sense of My Experience
What Is Creative Courage?
No Panacea
The Quest for a Constructive, Transformative Workplace
Creative Courage for Everyone
CHAPTER 1. THE CENTRAL PROBLEM AFFECTING WORK. THE WAR ON IMAGINATION, AND HOW I LOST MY CREATIVE COURAGE
I. Raising the Curtain
Finding in North Korea the Words for an Old Problem
Circus Diplomacy
A Monster at Lunch
A Four-Headed Monster
The Two Pillars of the War on Imagination: Unconsciousness and Time
The War Closer to Us
Childhood Dreams and the Personal War
The Inner War
The Falling Wall
II. Insights
The War at Work
A Clash at the Heart of Our Brand
Manifestations of the War on Imagination at Work
III. Your Story
Disconnection with Imagination at Work
Scanning Your Team, Project, Business, and Organization
A Path of Seven Stages
Summary
CHAPTER 2. CARE FIRST. RESPECT IS NOT THE FIRST STEP WHEN DISENGAGEMENT IS THE STATUS QUO
I. Raising the Curtain
Where Respect Starts
Disengagement Close to Home
The Context
A New Situation without an Instruction Manual
Caring First: The Team
Added Support for the Practice of Caring First
Building Your Narrative
Putting My Own Words on It
II. Insights
Practices
Exercises
III. Your Story
Summary
CHAPTER 3. SECURE SAFETY. NO SAFETY, NO TRUST
I. Raising the Curtain
In Search of Innovation with the Body
Determining How Safe Your Organization Is
How to Create or Reinforce Your Virtual Net
II. Insights
Practices
Exercises
III. Your Story
Summary
CHAPTER 4. FOSTER TRUST. THE NATURAL STATE OF SILOS
I. Raising the Curtain
Trust
II. Insights
The Path to Trust: Better Collaborations
A New Attitude
The Undiscussed Part of Innovation Work: Emotional Work
Practices
Exercises
III. Your Story
Summary
CHAPTER 5. PLAY WITH DANGER. WHEN THE STAKES ARE SO HIGH THAT WE JUST WANT TO PLAY IT SAFE
I. Raising the Curtain
The Sage of the Acrobatic World
Understanding the Need to Play
II. Insights
Practices
Exercises
III. Your Story
Summary
CHAPTER 6. DREAM. SPREADSHEETS DON'T DREAM YET
I. Raising the Curtain
Cirque's Early Dreaming
The Bottom Line, the Blade, and the Noose
II. Insights
Practices
Exercises
III. Your Story
Summary
CHAPTER 7. DISCOVER BREAKTHROUGHS. THE NEGLECTED AREA OF HUMAN EMOTIONS AND THE EDGE OF THE FUTURE
I. Raising the Curtain
Breakthrough Innovation
Magic That Moves People
II. Insights
Practices
No Hard Rules but a Few Principles
Filters: Are You Trapped in Success? Moving Away from Common Addictions
The Best Context for Discoveries and Breakthroughs
Exercises
III. Your Story
Summary
CHAPTER 8. GROW. WHAT IF IT'S NOT ABOUT THE LOGO?
I. Raising the Curtain
Beyond the Small Stuff
II. Insights
Practices
Love in Technology and Growth
Exercises
III. Your Story
Summary
CHAPTER 9. START TO DANCE. WHEN IS IT TOO LATE?
I. Raising the Curtain
II. Insights
Practices
Exercises
III. Your Story
Summary
CONCLUSION: 50 PERCENT MORE
INDEX
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To Ella, for being the amazing dancer of life. To Kat, for being the visionary of love, space, and pace. To Yael, for being an extraordinary mother and artist. To Annie, Dorcelan, Myrta, and Wendy, for your faith and love. To the Baulu family, for your art of hosting and celebrating. To Susan Abramovitch, for practicing law so artfully. To Jeanenne Ray at Wiley, for your patience and support. To Jocelyn Kwiatkowski, also at Wiley, and your valiant team of editors, thank you for your hawk eyes and for being the guardians of the reading flow. To Adrienne Brodeur from the Aspen Institute, for reminding me to listen to my favorite podcast, On Being. To Alissa Nutting, for your sense of time and your generosity in Aspen. To Guy Laliberté, for your business savvy and your creative intelligence. To Danielle Serpica at Wiley, for your rigor and mastery of the process. To my fellow students at Aspen Words, Colorado, for your courage to share that gave me wings. To Michel Rioux, for your love of theater. To the small but mighty team of Aspen Words, for showing me the way. To Jean “Creative Guide at Cirque du Soleil” François Bouchard, for your intuition. To Murielle Cantin, for your supersonic ability to see the potential in others and for seeing the talent seeker in me. To John Branca and Karen Langford of the Michael Jackson Estate, for your intimate knowledge of the art and genius of the king of pop. To Bernard Petiot, for your intellectual agility. To Boris Verkhovsky, for being a precious storyteller. To Fabrice Becker, for the music. To Jamie King, for being punk rock and for sharing its spirit with me. To Carla Kama, for being real and badass. To Matthew Whelan, for the wet towels of truth. To Joel Bergeron, for having our back and helping us to see the stage. To Carole Doucet, for challenging and encouraging me to find the questions inside the questions. To Brian Drader, for connecting words and visions to life on stage. To Joanne Fillion, for encouraging me to aim for just enough perfection. To Line Giasson, for your drive to make auditions memorable. To Diane Quinn, for your fearless embrace of the spirit of the Renaissance. To Bernardine Fontaine, for your strength that inspired me, and our family, to be strong. To Jacques Méthé, for your sense of words and story. To Catherine Nadeau, for your sense of beauty in movement. To Marta Rocamora, for your sense of community. To Viviana De Loera, for your sense of space. To Seth Godin, for Linchpin live in New York City in 2010. To David and Tom Kelly from IDEO, for the creative confidence. To David Allen, for Getting Things Done. To Marche Soupson, for the almost daily stroll to get delicious soup for lunch. To Fabrik8 in Montreal, for the office space. To Stephanie Malak and Emanuel Cohen, for your keen sense of lines and objects, thanks for the graphs and icons in this book. To the MJ ONE team, for your resilience, brilliance, and bigheartedness. To everyone at Cirque du Soleil, your passion makes your audience radiant.
For all of your superpowers and your genius, thank you!
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As a producer, I can never take for granted courage, a quality that is critical to lasting and impactful success. It's a mind-set that I have in part acquired thanks to my childhood in Las Vegas, where I learned the value of risk-taking. The risk-taker can be reckless of course, mindless or arrogant, but I prefer the courageous ones who – like some of my mentors – never shy away from taking a chance on the misfits, the odd man or odd woman out. It takes courage to zig when the world zags, but this truism is also at the heart of creativity, innovation, and success.
Since that first day where we met in the theater of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Welby and I continued to foster a precious friendship, peppered with dreams of collaborating together on projects and mutual support, admiration for our respective work and ethos.
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