Gamestorming: A Playbook For Innovators, Rule-breakers, And Changemakers (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
Not bad ideas, but a lot of "seen that", "done that"... only sold as 'games'. The games are only interesting if you have an actual problem at hand, and then you probably wouldn't have time to read through them all.By far not as innovative as it makes out to be, I personally would need more. If it's the first book or course you read on the subject it might be enlightning, but not for someone who has been working creatively/innovatively for a while. I have a philosophical difference with the core premise of this book, that group creative thinking can and should be enhanced through rigid mechanistic game-playing. While the subject itself is approached with clarity and consistency, I can't do anything but subjectively abhor the book as a whole.Gamestorming is a collection of team building and group creativity inspiring practices, each tailored around a similarity to some form of game. The purpose of these games are to help with the flow between idea creation and decision making. Each practice is arbitrary in nature due to the lack of importance of the actual structure of the play involved. It just doesn't matter what game is being played. If an individual game being defined is meaningless then that extends even more to so a collection of games.Formalizing and cataloging these games serves the purpose of codifying hand waving and other arbitrary gesticulation that middle management culture adores, easily supplementing real intellectual strain. Furthermore the narrative being spun of games being at the forefront of the knowledge economy and exercised by thought leaders can only help create more false confidence of it's usefulness. Gamestorming is evidence that we're never going to get rid of coconut radio headsets anytime soon.
What do You think about Gamestorming: A Playbook For Innovators, Rule-breakers, And Changemakers (2000)?
Puede ser una excelente aplicación o comunidad, pero como libro le falta un poco de contenido.
—Claire
Very good book, with exercises and tips for explore innovation!
—arseniomenes
Imported from my LinkedIn Reading List via Shelfari.
—Kendrick
