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Jack's Notebook: A Business Novel About Creative Problem Solving (Paperback)

by Gregg Fraley (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Nelson Current (1 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1595552472
  • ISBN-13: 978-1595552471
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,025,936 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An innovative combination of entertainment and learning, 9 Jun 2008
By David Lowings (Maidenhead, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jack's Notebook: A Business Novel about Creative Problem Solving (Hardcover)
Remember your favourite teacher at school? Almost certainly he/she was the one that made lessons fly past, so compelling, enjoyable, sheer fun was the content. It's like that with Jack's Notebook. Gregg Fraley has managed to combine a rollicking yarn about love, loss and rescue with a clear guide to the principles and practice of Creative Problem Solving (CPS).

Fraley cleverly intertwines a strong plot with a step-by-step CPS process: the principal character learns about CPS and uses it to improve his life. It sounds contrived, but it works! The characters are three-dimensional, the plot is believable (in the main), and the CPS approach plays a vital role in the story's development.

If I have one criticism it is that the CPS message becomes a little subsumed in the chapters towards the end of the book. Fraley is trying to demonstrate a more 'real world' way to use CPS, moving forwards and backwards in the process organically, depending upon your needs at that time. However, the educational message gets diluted as the story reaches its exciting conclusion - in a way a testament to Fraley's story-telling skills.

However, this minor criticism should not detract from what is a very fine book of relevance to anyone interested in creativity - from employees within large companies to those interested in self-empowerment or personal innovation.

Highly recommended.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Novel twist gets to the bones of creative problem solving, 16 Oct 2009
This review is from: Jack's Notebook: A Business Novel about Creative Problem Solving (Hardcover)
Most books around creativity and innovation cover theory, techniques, worldly-wise commentary or a mix of these. This one is different.

Storytelling has been a powerful medium for passing on knowledge for thousands of years and Gregg Fraley has cleverly spun an enjoyable yarn to share the essential steps for creative problem solving. As we follow the life of would-be professional photographer, Jack Huber, we are given a guide to how each part of the process can be applied in the real world.

'Notebook' is a smart title, too, because the novel is a bit of a creativity 'sandwich' rather than a pure tale. We get story intertwined with the key problem-solving steps in the first part of the book, then the story races away in dramatic style and almost loses the "problem-solving steps" thread before finishing with a Hollywood movie ending. To cap the whole thing, there's a useful reference guide to Jack's journey and the creative problem-solving steps he took along the way. The 'sandwich' is technique (story), story then back to the technique and though uneven in places it leaves a satisfying taste in the reader's mouth.

The storytelling really came through as a strength and Gregg Fraley knows how to get dialogue to zip off the page. It felt like this was a book waiting to be turned into a movie.

The use of storytelling to deliver insights reminded me of The Enlightened Gardener by Sydney Banks and James Redfield's The Celestine Prophecy. They're good reads, too.

Perhaps this book will end up on the big screen and do for creativity and innovation what 'What the Bleep?' has done for bringing quantum physics, spirituality and mind matters more into the mainstream. Now there's an idea!

This is a fun introduction for those new to creative problem solving, and an intriguing and refreshing read for everyone else.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enthralling Tale with a practical spin, 1 Jun 2009
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This review is from: Jack's Notebook: A Business Novel about Creative Problem Solving (Hardcover)
Gregg Fraley has done a great job in using story as the perfect learning medium for the very practical tool of Creative Problem Solving. He has managed to weave a compelling and fast paced action adventure with solid information about a powerful technique that has both personal and business applications. A fast read but one which you can go back to over and over again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful introduction to Creative Problem Solving
This is an easy, well written story about creativity and problem solving. I stuided the CPS method during my MBA and found it very dull, but in this book Mr Fraley has done a... Read more
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