{"id":7906,"date":"2011-12-11T18:39:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T02:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=7906"},"modified":"2011-12-11T18:39:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T02:39:22","slug":"gamestorming-a-playbook-for-innovators-rulebreakers-and-changemakers-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/12\/11\/gamestorming-a-playbook-for-innovators-rulebreakers-and-changemakers-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-7906\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gamestorming-Playbook-Innovators-Rulebreakers-Changemakers\/dp\/0596804172%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0596804172\">Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong><a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB003QRRY44\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dave-Gray\/e\/B003QRRY44\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Dave Gray<\/a>, <a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB003KEGO1W\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sunni-Brown\/e\/B003KEGO1W\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_2\">Sunni Brown<\/a>, <a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB003UV32BK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/James-Macanufo\/e\/B003UV32BK\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_3\">James Macanufo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 288 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> O&#8217;Reilly Media; 1 edition (July 30, 2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0596804172<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0596804176<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re often running meetings, trying to get people to help make decisions, think out-of-the-box, consider options, then this is a book for you.<\/p>\n<p>The premise of the book is pretty simple: when we play games we let loose and can come up with more\/better ideas and options.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve run a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Brainstorming\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brainstorming\" rel=\"wikipedia\">brainstorming<\/a> session you know this, as brainstorming is a kind of game. There are three parts to a well organized session:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opening<\/li>\n<li>Exploring<\/li>\n<li>Closing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes there are multiple occurrences of each depending on the number of things to work on and the way the team works together.<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of this book is a set of meeting &#8216;games,&#8217; for example &#8220;Context Map.&#8221; Each &#8216;game&#8217; has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Object of play<\/li>\n<li>Number of players<\/li>\n<li>How to Play<\/li>\n<li>Strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are too many games to count easily.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I have this book &#8211; the next time I need to get people together to work on strategy I&#8217;ll grab this book and consider ways to get everyone involved.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisdrinkut.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/03\/gamestorming-how-to-turn-your-next-meeting-into-a-creative-problem-solving-getup\/\">Gamestorming, How To Turn Your Next Meeting into a Creative Problem-Solving Getup<\/a> (chrisdrinkut.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img colorbox-7906\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-7906\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 7906);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-7906\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-7906\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers Author: Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: O&#8217;Reilly Media; 1 edition (July 30, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0596804172 ISBN-13: 978-0596804176 If you&#8217;re often running meetings, trying to get people to help make decisions, think out-of-the-box, consider options, then this is a book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1084,1083,1082,1081,1085,1086,1087],"class_list":["post-7906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-brainstorming","tag-creativity","tag-market-research","tag-oreilly-media","tag-problem-solving","tag-product-development","tag-social-psychology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-23w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}