By Pamela Meyer
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Customer tags: creativity(2), permission(2), play(2), fun(2), collaboration(2), employee engagement(2), innovation(2), team building(2), agility, inquiry, engagement, corporate culture
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #129354 in Books
- Published on: 2011-10-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .28" h x 5.98" w x 9.02" l, .41 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 132 pages
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By Debra Beck, Ed.D.
Pamela Meyer has been stretching my mind - and my comfort levels - since I read her phenomenal book, Workplace to Playspace, last year. In "Permission," Pamela and co-author Brandy Agerbeck continue that process.
I'm an adult educator and consultant to nonprofit boards. Boards are groups of committed community leaders who want to do the right thing but often fall back on "safe" modes of thinking and decision making. The result is a never-ending cycle of "the way we've always done things," whether or not that "way" yields effective or visionary outcomes. I read "Permission" with those boards in mind. Every turn of the page yielded an "Aha!" and a "That could work!" Every "permission" offered a low-risk, but potentially high-impact way to stretch even the most hesitant adult.
The ultimate value of "Permission" is two-fold. First, the concepts offered up by Pamela and Brandy are remarkable in their common-sense nature. They aren't radical or frightening. They simply, well, give us permission - to act in ways destined to ensure effective group interaction and creative approaches to thinking about problems and opportunities. They make sense, which virtually eliminates any potential resistance to trying something too "out there."
Second, the book highlights each "permission" inpidually, which makes it easy to select one area for focus and action. Change is encouraged in manageable forms, which reduces the risk and increases the potential for success. For example, I could easily see introducing the "Permission to Question" to a board, working with them to increase their comfort with increasing the role of inquiry in their meetings and governance work. If a group ignored everything else in the book (but what a mistake that would be!), giving members permission to speak up and ask those questions that need to be asked has the potential to completely transform.
I must admit, while I read "Permission" wearing my consultant's hat, I paused fairly often to ponder how I might benefit from more deliberate focus in aspects of my personal life.
"Permission" is a quick and powerful read - a must for anyone who works in and with groups, and who enjoys a good personal stretch now and again.
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By Joy Meredith
Are we being amazing? Permission is a whimsical yet dead on guide to get over ourselves and anything and everything else that might be holding us back and keeping us ordinary.
I love that this book has visual cues that walk us thru how to get out of our own way. This isn't really a book I read once and will put away, it is a resource that I'll use whenever I need a burst of inspiration.
Great gift for creatives, grads, and business pros who are not producing at the innovation level they would like.
It returned my sense of possibility and play- really liked it!
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By Justine
Permission is a wonderful little book filled with very wise advice for finding yourself, your creativity and your voice not just in the work place, but in the world. This book provides encouragement to 'play', something that is much needed and all too often disregarded in the work environment. Applying the principals in Permission is like breathing some fresh air into a stale and stuck space.
This book makes a wonderful gift, especially for those coworkers that have their nose to grindstone so often that they forget to breathe, laugh and just plan be. After reading this book, they may just realize, as I did, that we all need to color outside of the lines sometimes.
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