Daring To Dream
This book received Indian Society For Training & Development (ISTD) First Book of The Year Award, 1998.
Today’s business environments have become increasingly complex and challenging. Hence, its imperative to find innovative and creative solutions to problems. These refer to the challenges faced by both organizations and individual managers on a daily basis. Daring to Dream is a book which is on the cutting edge of management science, psychology, and spiritual wisdom. In this book, Dr. Anjali Hazarika shows how an understanding of dreams can provide an alternative holistic model for stimulating creativity. It can further help in building knowledge capital and developing teamwork in organizations. Dr. Anjali Hazarika has done extensive research and has experience in conducting dream workshops for business executives.
Creativity Through Dreams
Dr. Hazarika maintains that it is possible to come up with creative solutions through dreams. These are non-replicable and inaccessible to the waking state but can be tapped in the subconscious state. She describes how this new “soft” approach of using dreamwork can be effectively used for solving “hard” business problems. It is done by integrating conventional opposites like reason and intuition, intellect and emotion, plus incubation and insight. The author contends that the power of dreamwork enables the dreamer to cultivate a heightened state of awareness. This can give him or her the ability to respond creatively and to make the right choices. The book provides a step-by-step approach to the use of the technique along with a detailed case study. Special feature is a chapter on how dreamwork can provide women managers with new insights and skills. These will help them to cope with the often conflicting demands of their career and family. Anyone working in creative fields, human resource development or organizational behavior, will find this book an exciting new way to approach problem solving.
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Thanks to works like Dr. Hazarika’s it just might be that the corporate world will recognize the practical value of dreams and lead the orthodox world of psychology out of the superstitious middle age into modern problem-solving oriented dreamwork.
Founding President of the Association for The Study of Dreams & Author of Living Your Dreams
In a unique undertaking, Dr. Hazarika has set out to restore the balance between problematic aspects of waking life and this readily available repair mechanism …. Written in a very personal style, Dr. Hazarika’s book is infused with a lively sense of metaphor, as well as illustrative parables and quotes from the folklore and literature of India. All in all a delight to read and much to ponder over.
Former Director, Maimonides Medical Centre N.Y. & author of Working with Dreams
The event- a meeting of high-level corporate managers.
The goal- solving business problems.
The topic- of discussion: the participants’ dreams.
This scenario may sound, implausible but psychologist Anjali Hazarika has conducted dream-sharing workshops in recent years for several hundred executives in diverse sectors of business. This book details her philosophy and methods.
While dreamwork isn’t in the typical business school curriculum, Hazarika’s practical examples of its value in the worksplace suggest perhaps it should be.
Lynne Lamberg is an independent medical journalist, author and editor who specializes in mental health, particularly in sleep and biological rhythms.
Her book marks a departure from the traditional ways of harnessing corporate creativity…For managers, this book should help identify specific practices, skills and disciplines that can tap their creative potential.
Hazarika’s Daring to Dream is a brave attempt to dispel the myth and mystique associated with dreams and bring them into the problem-solving arena of modern-day management……The simplicity of style and clarity of contents, coupled with the earnestness of Hazariks’s conviction make for an extremely interesting read.
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