Alison Jones 
Exploratory Writing [EPUB ebook] 
Everyday magic for life and work

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** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **

‘A really powerful book.’ – Bruce Daisley

Simple tools, extraordinary results.

Everything we’re learning about how we function best as humans in the digital age is pointing towards one of our oldest technologies: the pen and the page.

Exploratory writing – writing for ourselves, not for others, writing when we don’t know exactly what it is we want to say – is one of the most powerful and lightweight thinking tools we have at our disposal. It’s also been, until now, one of the most overlooked.

But the world’s most influential leaders are increasingly using the techniques in this book to support the key skills of the 21st century – self-mastery, creativity, focus, solution-finding, collaboration – and so can you.

Alison Jones has been helping business leaders identify and articulate what matters over a 30-year career in publishing and as a coach. The founder of Practical Inspiration Publishing and host of The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast and community, she is passionate about the power of writing to change ourselves and the world.

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Introduction

Part 1 – Why exploratory writing?

The science

Is this about better writing?

Let’s get started

Part 2 – The toolkit

Exploratory narrative

freewriting

mindfulness

chimp management

empathy

Metaphor

surfacing metaphors

finding new metaphors

forced metaphors

analogy

Inquiry

learning through inquiry

inquiring of future you

appreciative inquiry

humble inquiry

Visual thinking

writing into drawings

storyboarding

graphic organizers

developing your own visuals

Part 3 – Using the tools

Wellbeing and mindfulness

sense-making

mental resilience

happiness

self-coaching

Clarity and focus

decluttering

focus and deep work

reflective practice

Creativity and problem-solving

creative thinking

problem-solving

prototyping

Leadership and collaboration

visioning

uncovering bias

conflict resolution

culture change

Conclusion: over to you

Appendices: glossary of tools, list of prompts, bibliography

Despre autor

Alison Jones is a publisher, podcaster, speaker and book coach, founder of Practical Inspiration Publishing and host of The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast. She worked as an editor and publisher with leading companies such as Chambers, Oxford University Press and Macmillan, most recently as Director of Innovation Strategy at Palgrave Macmillan until she left to set up her own publishing imprint. Through her training and coaching programmes she enables business leaders and entrepreneurs to deepen their thinking and communicate more effectively, using their writing to build a platform for their expertise and business success. A champion of the value of books for businesses, she is a former Head Judge of the Business Book Awards in the UK and recommends and reviews business books for the thousands of subscribers to her weekly newsletter. She has written and edited several books, including This Book Means Business (2018) and Exploratory Writing (2022), speaks regularly at industry and business events (she has twice chaired the London Book Fair’s Quantum conference), and regularly contributes articles on business books and business writing to press and other publications. In 2022 she delivered a TEDx talk, ‘Let’s Rethink Writing’.

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 216 ● ISBN 9781788603690 ● Mărime fișier 1.6 MB ● Vârstă 22-99 ani ● Editura Practical Inspiration Publishing ● Oraș Northwich ● Țară GB ● Publicat 2022 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 8273441 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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