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  • How Improvisation Reverses "No, but" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration - Lessons from the Second City
  • By: Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton
  • Narrated by: Alan Winter
  • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)
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By: Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton
Narrated by: Alan Winter
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Summary

The Second City has launched the careers of celebrated comic performers such as Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert and produced award-winning content. But it's the actual improvisational process developed and honed over the years by The Second City that has become its legacy. Players master an ability to co-create in ensembles, using philosophies that celebrate a "Yes, And" approach. They embrace authenticity and failure, and espouse the idea of "following the follower", which allows any member of the team to assume a leadership role.

For more than two decades, The Second City has taken these same principles in thousands of corporate clients, showing leaders how to apply the tools of improv to common business challenges. Here, for the first time, Second City executives Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton describe how you can use the same skills that thrill audiences around the world to improve your emotional intelligence, increase creativity, and learn to pivot out of tight and uncomfortable situations. In this engaging, often humorous, and highly practical audiobook, you will learn how to become a more compelling leader and a more collaborative follower by employing the seven elements of improv:

  • Yes, And, by which you give every idea a chance to be acted on
  • Ensemble, reconciling the needs of individuals with those of the broader team
  • Co-creation, which highlights the importance of dialogue in creating new products, processes, and relationships
  • Authenticity, or being unafraid to speak truth to power, challenge convention, and break the rules
  • Failure, teaching us that not only is it okay to fail, but we should always include it as part of our process
  • Follow the Follower, which gives any member of the group the chance to assume a leadership role
  • Listening, in which you learn to stay in the moment, and know the difference between listening to understand and listening merely to respond

©2015 Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers

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"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." (AudioFile)

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