Creating Business Magic: How the Power of Magic Can Inspire, Innovate, and Revolutionize Your Business
Three experts from the worlds of magic and business strategy share the secrets to conjuring innovation and shattering expectations.

Your organization may employ hundreds, even thousands. You may be experiencing growth and hitting your revenue targets. But unless you are creating magic for your customers—like Disney, Apple, and Amazon—you are not the innovation leader you need to be in today’s marketplace.

In Creating Business Magic, a corporate strategist, a former acting CIA director, and a world-renowned magician share their secrets to success. Each chapter opens with a legendary magic act—from Harry Houdini to Pen and Teller—and explores how the same principles and techniques can be deployed to create a fertile environment for disruptive innovation and propel a company light years ahead of the competition.

"The authors illuminate the power of perception, ways to innovate, to think out of the box, break down conceptual barriers, and finally bring out the magician inside all of us.” —from the introduction by David Copperfied
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Creating Business Magic: How the Power of Magic Can Inspire, Innovate, and Revolutionize Your Business
Three experts from the worlds of magic and business strategy share the secrets to conjuring innovation and shattering expectations.

Your organization may employ hundreds, even thousands. You may be experiencing growth and hitting your revenue targets. But unless you are creating magic for your customers—like Disney, Apple, and Amazon—you are not the innovation leader you need to be in today’s marketplace.

In Creating Business Magic, a corporate strategist, a former acting CIA director, and a world-renowned magician share their secrets to success. Each chapter opens with a legendary magic act—from Harry Houdini to Pen and Teller—and explores how the same principles and techniques can be deployed to create a fertile environment for disruptive innovation and propel a company light years ahead of the competition.

"The authors illuminate the power of perception, ways to innovate, to think out of the box, break down conceptual barriers, and finally bring out the magician inside all of us.” —from the introduction by David Copperfied
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Creating Business Magic: How the Power of Magic Can Inspire, Innovate, and Revolutionize Your Business

Creating Business Magic: How the Power of Magic Can Inspire, Innovate, and Revolutionize Your Business

Creating Business Magic: How the Power of Magic Can Inspire, Innovate, and Revolutionize Your Business

Creating Business Magic: How the Power of Magic Can Inspire, Innovate, and Revolutionize Your Business

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Overview

Three experts from the worlds of magic and business strategy share the secrets to conjuring innovation and shattering expectations.

Your organization may employ hundreds, even thousands. You may be experiencing growth and hitting your revenue targets. But unless you are creating magic for your customers—like Disney, Apple, and Amazon—you are not the innovation leader you need to be in today’s marketplace.

In Creating Business Magic, a corporate strategist, a former acting CIA director, and a world-renowned magician share their secrets to success. Each chapter opens with a legendary magic act—from Harry Houdini to Pen and Teller—and explores how the same principles and techniques can be deployed to create a fertile environment for disruptive innovation and propel a company light years ahead of the competition.

"The authors illuminate the power of perception, ways to innovate, to think out of the box, break down conceptual barriers, and finally bring out the magician inside all of us.” —from the introduction by David Copperfied

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781633537354
Publisher: Mango Media
Publication date: 05/15/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 325
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

In addition to his work as vice chairman of Core Strategy Group, David Morey is chairman and founder of DMG Global. He is one of America's leading strategic consultants--and one of its most sought-after speakers. Morey has worked with some of the world's top business leaders, and advised five Noble Peace Prize winners and 16 winning global presidential campaigns, including Barack Obama's. His corporate clients include GE, Verizon, Pepsi, Mars, McDonald's, Microsoft, Nike, P&G, Disney, Visa, The Coca-Cola Company, TPG, American Express, NBC, and Samsung. Eugene Burger was one of magic's legendary performers, philosophers, and teachers. The author of fifteen bestselling books on magic, Burger was called by Magic magazine ""one of the 100 most influential magicians of the 20th century."" He won many international accolades, including four awards from Hollywood's legendary Magic Castle. John E. McLaughlin was deputy director and acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2000 to 2004, capping a thirty-two-year career in intelligence. He is a highly accomplished magician, performer, and speaker, focusing on foreign affairs and the application of magic principles to intelligence, business, and leadership.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Foreword David Copperfield 7

Preface: Who Should Read This Book? 9

Introduction: What Is a Magician? 13

Part 1 Imagine 22

The First Strategy: Forget Reality 23

The Second Strategy: Reboot Aspiration 49

The Third Strategy: Imagine First 75

Part 2 Plot 104

The Fourth Strategy: Disorganize Innovation 105

The Fifth Strategy: Cheat Preemptively 135

The Sixth Strategy: Redirect Your Audience 163

Part 3 Empower 196

The Seventh Strategy: Grab the Dialogue 197

The Eighth Strategy: Overcome and Prevail 225

The Ninth Strategy: Empower Belief 257

Conclusion: Play Offense with Your Imagination 277

About the Authors 282

Endnotes 284

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"A political and corporate strategist who has advised winning global presidential campaigns and Fortune 100 CEOs, the former Acting Director of the CIA, and one of magic’s true legends combine their perspectives to illuminate how the power of magic can ignite your own imagination, power through barriers, and get way ahead of any competition." ―from the Foreword, by David Copperfield

" Creating Business Magic unveils the mysteries of magic while offering nine strategic guidelines for thinking and acting as a magician and leveraging it for personal and business growth and success. A must read that is both inspirational and instructive.” ―Jerry Wind The Lauder Professor Emeritus The Wharton school

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