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YES AND by Kelly Leonard Tom Yorton Read by Alan Winter
by Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton | Read by Alan Winter Business & Finance 7.5 hrs. Unabridged © 2015 Narrating a most engaging lesson on being productive and influencing others at work, Alan Winter communicates a natural enthusiasm that makes you like him right away and trust his understanding of the authors’ message. His vocal personality, pacing, and articulation draw listeners in and make them want to stay connected. The two authors are executives at the famed Second City improv theater.
Yes And | Kelly Leonard & Tom Yorton | Soundview Summary
Yes, And How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration
Simplify Collaboration: Kelly Leonard On How To Grow Teams With Improv
Effective collaboration, innovative thinking, and constructive problem-solving can be major struggles for many teams, regardless of industry. But for those who really want to fix these issues, it’s time to look beyond how other companies work and turn to improv comedy ensembles for inspiration. After all, they’ve literally taken teamwork and turned it into an artform.
Yes, And - Kelly Leonard - Hardcover
Executives from The Second City—the world’s premier comedy theater and school of improvisation—reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses. For more than fifty years, The Second City comedy theater in Chicago has been a training ground for some of the best comic minds in the industry—including John Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Mike Myers, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Tina Fey.
The Nashville Ledger
For weeks now, your top client has been dancing around a decision. It’s been a careful ballet just getting him to this point, but he can’t commit. You are, in fact, getting a little worried that he might waltz right out of the deal and you may need some fancy moves to keep things on track. So how do you learn to be light on your feet and creative in this situation – and others? Start with “Yes, And” by Kelly Leonard & Tom Yorton.
Ep. 60 | Steve Portigal on Using a Classic Improv Game to Uncover More Customer Insights
Steve Portigal has interviewed everyone from high-finance traders to rock musicians, regular families to medical professionals, all in search of finding out how people make their products better. "Great leaders are not territorial," he said in this episode of Helping Sells Radio "They're looking for everything and anything that can help make their products better." We were excited to sit down with Steve to learn more about user research and how to be a better interviewer.
What Businesses Can Learn From Improv Comedy
The improvisational theater group The Second City might be best known as the training ground for such talents as Tina Fey, Steve Carrell and Amy Poehler.
What Businesses Can Learn From Improv Comedy
The improvisational theater group The Second City might be best known as the training ground for such talents as Tina Fey, Steve Carrell and Amy Poehler. But the group also teaches improvisation to corporations to help them make their businesses better.
3 Improv Exercises That Can Change the Way Your Team Works
What can leaders learn from improv comedians? For five decades, The Second City comedy theatre and school of improvisation has been a launch pad for the leading comic performers of our times, from Alan Arkin to John Belushi, Gilda Radner to Tina Fey, and Steve Carell to Stephen Colbert, and many more. In a reference to our talent development prowess, we’ve been called the Harvard of Comedy (which is great, except that we think Harvard is the Second City of higher education).
Something is working: The comic geniuses of “SNL” owe a huge debt to Second City
People love lists. They are easy to comprehend and they tell a story without any narrative around them. How’s this for a list?
Yes, And - Kelly Leonard - Hardcover
Executives from The Second City—the world’s premier comedy theater and school of improvisation—reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses. For more than fifty years, The Second City comedy theater in Chicago has been a training ground for some of the best comic minds in the industry—including John Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Mike Myers, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Tina Fey.
12 leadership books to watch for in 2015
With the new year comes a host of new resolutions. To work smarter. Lead better. Get organized. Read more. Yet among business and leadership books - an overcrowded, underwhelming genre if there ever was one - what's worth picking up? We scanned publishers' lists, looked for compelling titles in the news, and picked the brains of top leadership authors about the most compelling ones scheduled to come out in the year ahead. Here are 12 books we think will be worth reading as we turn the page to 2015.
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