Creative acts for curious people : how to think, create, and lead in unconventional ways / Sarah Stein Greenberg; foreword by David M. Kelley ; illustrations by Michael Hirshon.

Getting started -- The assignments: Find your path -- The journey from not knowing to knowing -- Widening your lens -- The feeling of learning -- Production struggle -- Putting it all together.

"In an era of ambiguous, messy problems-as well as extraordinary opportunities for positive change-it's vital to have both an inquisitive mind and the ability to act with intention. This book is filled with ways to build those skills with resilience, care, and confidence. At Stanford University's world-renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, aka 'the d.school,' students and faculty, experts and seekers bring together diverse perspectives to tackle ambitious projects; this book contains the experiences designed to help them do it. A provocative and highly visual companion, it's a definitive resource for people who aim to draw on their curiosity and creativity in the face of uncertainty. Teeming with ideas about discovery, learning, and leading the way through unknown creative territory, these pages include memorable stories and more than eighty innovative exercises. To bring fresh approaches to any challenge--world changing or close to home--you can draw on exercises such as Expert Eyes to hone observation skills, How to Talk to Strangers to foster understanding, and Designing Tools for Teams to build creative leadership. The activities are at once lighthearted, surprising, tough, and impactful-and reveal how the hidden dynamics of design can drive more vibrant ways of making, feeling, exploring, experimenting, and collaborating at work and in life. This book will help you develop the behaviors and deepen the mindsets that can turn your curiosity into ideas, and your ideas into action." --front flap.