Ordered: Gordon MacKenzie’s Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Back in November, I listened to a few interviews with Tom Kelley. He talked about Gordon MacKenzie’s book, Orbiting the Giant Hairball, and I got interested.
I ordered it today, after listening to a recent episode of Design Matters where the designer of the book, Ann Willoughby, was interviewed.
From its back cover:
Gordon MacKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, where he inspired his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy and rise to orbit – to a mode of dreaming, daring, and doing above and beyond the rubber-stamp confines of the administrative mind-set. In this deeply funny book, exuberantly illustrated in full color, he shares lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius. He teaches how to emerge from the “giant hairball” – that tangled, inpenetrable mass of rules, and systems, based on what worked in the past and which can lead to mediocrity in the present.