Messy : how to be creative and resilient in a tidy-minded world
By: Harford, Tim
Publisher: London : Abacus, c2016.Description: 327 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780349141145Subject(s): Creative ability | Resilience (Personality trait) | Orderliness -- Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 153.35 HA ME Online resources: Location Map| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 153.35 HA ME (Browse shelf) | Available | May2018 | T0059694 |
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| 153.35 CA MB The Cambridge handbook of creativity / | 153.35 CA NE The net and the butterfly : | 153.35 GR OR Originals : | 153.35 HA ME Messy : | 153.35 HE CR Creativity and the brain | 153.35 KA WI Wired to create : | 153.35 KL ST Steal like an artist : |
1. Creativity --
Bowie, Eno and Darwin: how frustration and distraction help us solve problems In art, science and life --
2. Collaboration --
Paul Erdos and the Robbers Cave: why tidy teams have more fun but messy teamwork gets more done --
3. Workplaces --
Where Steve Jobs went wrong and why it's nobody else's business whether you tidy your desk --
4. Improvisation --
Martin Luther King, the helpdesk and the unexpected benefits of letting go of the script --
5. Winning --
Bezos, Rommel, Trump: how to use mess as a weapon in business, politics and war --
6. Incentives --
The Prime Minister and the paramedic: the pitfalls of imposing tidy targets on a messy world --
7. Automation --
447 Flight and the Jennifer unit: when human messiness protects us from computerised disaster --
8. Resilience --
Broken windows, stomach ulcers and the dangerous belief that cleanliness is next to godliness --
9. Life --
Franklin, Schwarzenegger and the genius who hacked OkCupid: why we should value mess in our inbox, our conversations and our children's play.
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