TEAM CREATIVITY: THE BOOK – evablechova.com

EVA BLECHOVÁ

The book is out!

Wild ideas in a safe space

Whether you’re tackling a marketing strategy, a theatre play, or climate change, you have two things in common. You need to find a creative solution and work towards it as a team. This book will help you discover ways to encourage and develop team creativity.

Practical and entertaining guidebook to team creativity. Compulsory reading for my team.

Martin Nepraš, startup founder (SharpGrid), former partner at McKinsey & Company

WHERE TO BUY THE BOOK

Brkola – publisher’s website
launch on the 7th of September 2023 in Prague
ask the author
at your favorite booksellers

Key parameters: Published by Brkola, paperback, 232 pages, in Czech, 16 x 19,5 cm, illustrated by Django Pinter.

The team:

Illustrations: Django Pinter
Editor: Petr J. Novotný
Graphic design: Dan Smrž
Supervision: Michal Čunderle

BOOK LAUNCH ON THE 7TH OF SEPTEMBER 2023

KAVÁRNA ZASEKÁVÁK, PRAGUE

To launch the book (together with my colleague’s Boleslav Keprt’s book “Dialogues with the inner critic”), we have invited

Anna Ryvolová, therapist, facilitator and director of the Institute of Process-Oriented work.

David Vávra, architect, actor and poet, founder of the Sklep theatre

Přemysl Rut, pianist, writer, playwright and theatre teacher

Musical accompaniment by Přemysl Rut a Čtyři (možná tři) buchty.

Photos by my friend and neighbour Marek Novotný.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK

Eva has experience not only from the world of corporate meetings on the topic of selling cookies or beer, but also from the art world. The ideas in her book come from countless human encounters, stories and mistakes. Do you want to be creative? You have to be curious. Ask where your place is. And then step out of the silence of solitude and create with others. Eva will show you how

Practical and entertaining guidebook to team creativity. Compulsory reading for my team.

The combination of the latest scientific findings and personal stories is both readable and inspiring. Eva guides us through the topic with ease and humor.

Eva offers ways to consciously develop openness and a safe environment for mutual relationships. Above all, she is herself living proof that with such an approach, creative work is meaningful and joyful!

„A safe environment helps us find our distinctive voice and cultivate it with joy and without fear of being embarrassed. The path to this is not without its setbacks, but thanks to her years of experience, Eva guides us along the journey with understanding and insight."

"The book offers tangible practices and strategies for fostering creativity in teams and creating an environment where people can feel safe and comfortable presenting their ideas. Recommended."

Books on creativity tend to be either seriously scholarly or attractively readable, possibly also applicable to life. Eva Blechová's book manages to combine the three together. I highly recommend it.

TABLE OF CONTENTS (roughly translated by DeepL )

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN

why it is so hard to speak up with a comment or come up with a wild idea
how to create a psychologically safe environment in your team
that a leader is characterized by humility rather than heroism
why bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists
what are the main obstacles to our creativity and how to address them
that all Pixar movies were terrible to begin with
why it is more beneficial not to seek your “true self” but rather to try out your “future selves”
why it’s a good idea to write a CV of your failures
that comparisons are not good for creativity
why we are so sensitive to negative feedback
and much more …

ILLUSTRATED BY DJANGO PINTER

The book is accompanied by the pictures of Django Pinter, an illustrator and film director.

BOOK EXCERPT

If you would like to read the beginning of the book, please write to us and we will send you an excerpt (automatic DeepL translation of the first 30 pages).