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The Creative Process is so simple that once you've understood it you'll never thing in the old way again. It can make all the difference to whether you succeed or not. best of all its really simple.
The Creative Process was fist Published by Robert Fritz

This book is about creating your life just as the artist creates a painting, a composer writes a symphony, or the poet write a poem.

Fritz shows the relationship among the mechanics, the orientation and the depth of the human spirit within the creative process, and how your life itself can be make like a work of art. Your Life as Art breaks new ground, shakes up the status quo, and at once, is common sense and revolutionary insight that can change the way you understand the dynamics of your life-building process.

What if a technique existed that an organization's managers could learn to use, and because of that practice they would add anywhere from 25 to 40 percent more actual capacity to their organization without adding significant cost? Certainly the theory would be intriguing to any top executive or manager.

But theory it is not, according to organizational consultant and best selling author Robert Fritz and California-based Blue Shield CEO Bruce Bodaken in The Managerial Moment of Truth. Because this practice was learned and implemented by more than a thousand managers at Blue Shield, the company's revenue has risen from $3 billion to nearly $7 billion in five years. Other leading companies from a variety of industries are using the same technique with great success.

The critical technique the authors call the Managerial Moment of Truth (MMOT) is based on this premise: Truth is one of the most important competitive advantages there is in building a business. The actual Moment of Truth consists of two distinct events. The first is the awareness that there is a difference between what was expected and what was delivered. The second is the decision made about what to do with that information.

The MMOT is a concrete methodology that will teach managers how to recognize and deal with reality. Without perceiving reality, it is next to impossible to succeed because, invariably, decisions are made in a vacuum. Unless reality is penetrated, very little significant improvement can occur. The authors explain: "Truth telling too often has come to mean simply sharing opinions. Trading opinions usually doesn't lead to greater understanding. What's missing is the discipline to understand the foundation of various opinions. We do that by measuring conclusions against reality."

When the forward of a book closes by saying "If you are not ready for this I recommend you set this book aside," the reader knows it is not a typical business tome. Developing a discipline of truth-telling is challenging because, as the authors put it, "reality is an acquired taste."