Creative courage : leveraging imagination, collaboration, and innovation to create success beyond your wildest dreams

Creative Courage -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- Why I Was in North Korea -- A New Role for Me: Cultural Diplomat -- A Beautiful-Impossible Objective -- Dreams of Peace -- Circus Diplomacy -- A Monster at Lunch -- Panic -- A Beam of Insight with Words -- A Four-Headed Monster -- Dysfunctional Leadership -- Clash between the Past and the Present -- Speed Anomaly -- Deliberate Unawareness -- The Two Pillars of the War on Imagination: Unconsciousness and Time -- The War Closer to Us -- Childhood Dreams and the Personal War -- Born in Paradox -- Fitting In, Not Standing Out -- My Personal War -- The Process of Creating Remarkable Communities -- Church -- Learning about Good and Bad Performances -- Surreal, Scary Stories from My Parents' Homeland -- To Be Like MJ -- Masters of Illusion -- 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 -- False Belief 1. I'm Not Creative -- False Belief 2. Only Artists Are Creative -- False Belief 3. Creativity Is Scarce -- False Belief 4. I'm the Special One, the Only One Who Can Be Creative -- False Belief 5. Creativity Is a Waste of Time-It Offers No Return on Investment, No Value -- False Belief 6. In Results Only We Trust: Creativity in Result but Not in Process -- 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 -- Caring First.