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More About This Title The Art of Making Sh!t Up: Using the Principles of Improv to Become an Unstoppable Powerhouse
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Work together to up your chances of business success
The Art of Making Sh!t Up combines the lessons learned from a personal journey with the teachings derived from years of honing valuable skills through performing and presenting to thousands of people to demonstrate how working together has helped others found and grow several multimillion-dollar companies.
By focusing on topics that serve as pain points and detailing the tools and techniques of improv, this book helps people and organizations utilize new skill sets to be more productive, more accepting, and more "all in" to create a stronger teammate and team.
• Remove the fear of failure
• Recognize when and how to trust your instincts
• Celebrate and embrace the ideas of others
• Listen effectively—to both people and your environment
Thinking is hard. Listening is easy—and is most often the springboard to huge ideas. Find out how it can work for you with The Art of Making Sh!t Up.
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Norm Laviolette: (www.iainnovation.com; Boston, MA) is the Co-founder of Improv Asylum, IA innovation and Asylum Gaming and Esports (AGE), Norm brings the experience of building companies from the ground up into multi-million-dollar businesses. Norm understands first hand why culture is integral to long-term success and has built a team that exemplifies why communicating, listening and trusting are so important. Norm is on a never-ending quest towards the continued development and expansion of Improv Asylum’s theatrical and IA Innovation’s business divisions and leads Improv Asylum and IA Innovation's strategic business and artistic vision locally, nationally and globally.
Bob Melley (www.iainnovation.com; Boston, MA) is the Managing Director for IA Innovation and is responsible for client relations, day to day operations and business development throughout Europe and the globe. As a former EVP and COO of major revenue companies across the entertainment and technology industries, Bob brings a wealth of business development experience and knowledge. Bob has worked with Fortune 50 businesses to start ups, incredible non-profits to leading educational institutions across the globe.
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Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 I Am Who I Say I Am
Chapter 2 Aggressive Listening
Chapter 3 Building Off Other People’s Ideas
Chapter 4 Jumping On The Spark
Chapter 5 The Fear of Looking stupid
Chapter 6 People Don’t think About You as Much As You Think They Do
Chapter 7 Facing Failure: Be Wrong To Be Right
Chapter 8 Heightening
Chapter 9 Yes And Maybe No
Chapter 10 Small Decisions Add Up
Chapter 11 The Cult Factor
Chapter 12 Patiently Impatient
Chapter 13 Pain Tolerance
Chapter 14 Luck Is Like A Train
Chapter 15 Fire The Assholes
Chapter 16 Ushers, Vomit, and Why People Clean Bathrooms
Chapter 17 Diversity Is A Choice
Chapter 18 Are You Worth $10 An Hour?
Chapter 19 Nobody Knows Anything
Chapter 20 Who Gives A Shit?
Chapter 21 Everything I Know In Business I Learned From Coaching Girls Softball
Chapter 22 Trapped In The Bowels of the Grand Bazaar
Chapter 23 The Ambassador and the Bathroom
Chapter 24 China Talk
Author’s Notes on “Shit”
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
