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Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2010. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0-59680-417-6. $29.99.
For this book, Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo collected games from a variety of contributors to help organizations think outside the box, and they provide opening, exploring, and closing games that challenge people to envision solutions in new ways. The authors propose that everyone's innate creativity can be tapped by cre-ating a world of play where the rules of ordinary life are temporarily suspended. In this alternate world, people can engage in everything from blue sky thinking to concrete problem solving.
The book is divided into discrete sections, beginning with a detailed explanation of what a game is, how to conduct games, and core gaming skills. The section on core games introduces basic games that may be incorporated into any of the...