"The purpose of this book is to help readers better understand how creative outcomes can be achieved. In order to accomplish this goal, the book defines the strategies and processes that can enhance individual creative ability and describes the characteristics and habits that may increase creative potential .In addition, the book provides concrete suggestions that demonstrate how the development of creative thinking can lead to creative outcomes"--Page 2

How do venture capitalists pick winners like Apple? How do the FBI's hostage rescue team find agents for the world's toughest job? How do Hollywood casting agents and major sports scouts size up the best talent? There's a huge difference between the very best performers and everyone else; in terms of productivity there's a five-to-one gap. No one can afford to settle for mediocrity. So how do talent scouts in every field identify genius and put it to work? Talking to the world's best, most secretive talent scouts, George Anders found that they all share an intense belief in finding high achievers who can create big successes. These are the arenas where brilliant recruiting is most vital - and in The Rare Find Anders reveals how the rest of us can learn the hidden 'tells' that really matter. Pairing these frontline observations with cutting-edge research from psychiatrists, economists, recruiters and business strategists, Anders shows how anyone can hone the ability to recognize future greatness and discover tomorrow's stars.

Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. Miles, Ornette, Cecil is the first book to connect these three icons of the avant-garde, examining why they are lionized by some critics and reviled by others, while influencing musicians across such divides as genre, geography, and racial and ethnic backgrounds. Mandel offers fresh insights into their careers from interviews with all three artists and many of their significant collaborators, as well as a thorough overview of earlier interpretations of their work.

This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

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Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking work in maize genetics. Her research demystified heredity by showing that genetic elements could move from one chromosome to another—movement now referred to as transposition. Learn more about this determined scientist who faced many obstacles while performing her important work.