Richard Tabor Greene

Sanda, Japan

I subscribe to the beliefs below: 1. If, knowing when and where someone was raised and educated, you can predict nothing at all about what he doe... (More) I subscribe to the beliefs below: 1. If, knowing when and where someone was raised and educated, you can predict nothing at all about what he does, thinks, and believes, he is an educated man. 2. We grow in character by learning to have what we used to naturally be---that is, each aspect of our identity, gender, nationality, profession, social class, and so on becomes something we wield/have/manage not something we unconsciously trustingly blurt out and use--we grow by getting emotional distance on who we are and managing our built-in manias and propensities; 3. There are at least 60 diverse models of what being creative is--actions taken to make yourself "more creative" if based on no particular model, undo more creation than they create (Less)

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Professor of Knowledge and Creativity Management

BUY MY 12 BOOKS AT https://www.you publish.com/ richard-tabor -greene ; long distance cycling... (More) BUY MY 12 BOOKS AT https://www.you publish.com/ richard-tabor -greene ; long distance cycling; 3D stereo photography; singing blues, jazz, and own compositions; designing fashions, events, interfaces, products; write one book a year; set up self teaching seminars among my former students; finish my comedy novel; set up a new part-of/kind-of college after retirement; set up group creation workshop events among artists and friends; teach how to penetrate, improve, blend cultures; perform improv comedy; inventing conceptual and theory underpinnings for all good design variations in all design fields; deploying my 60 models of creativity to improve global design; THE BOOKS I HAVE WRITTEN: Are You Educated? 48 Skills; Are You Educated, Japan? 256 Tools; Are You Effective? 64 Methods; Are You Creative? 128 Steps; Are You Creative? 60 Models; Managing Complexity; Powers from Brain Training--275 brain modules/skills; SuperSelling 26 Methods; see BOOK boxes below. My Dreams founding my own College of Creativity; inventing a new publishing industry--the publishing of readings; inventing and deploying a non-greedy culture of doing business; publishing some music CDs with sounds, rhythms, lyrics unlike anything in history; transforming the implements of doing all ordinary routines of daily life and work so that exercise constitutes 100% of all my waking hours--de-industrializing work and leisure; (Less)

hundreds of books--my 4000 favorite non-fiction books will be listed on the web and linked to ama... (More) hundreds of books--my 4000 favorite non-fiction books will be listed on the web and linked to amazon sometime next year probably. They are listed in un-down-load-able form here as one of my documents on Scribd. (Less)

BOOKS, WRITTEN BY ME (can be ordered in physical expensive or e cheap formats) 1. Are You Ed... (More) BOOKS, WRITTEN BY ME (can be ordered in physical expensive or e cheap formats) 1. Are You Educated? 48 Capabilities of Highly Educated People2. Are You Educated, Japan? 5 Models of Capabilities of Highly Educated People covering 256 Distinct Capabilities3. Are You Effective? 96 Methods from 150 of the World's Most Effective People4. Are You Creative? 64 Steps to Becoming Creative and 64 Steps to Creating5. Are You Creative? 60 Models of Creating from 150 of the World's Most Creative People in 63 Different Fields6. Managing Complexity--33 Methods7. Powers from Brain Training--275 Brain Modules and the Capabilities You Get By Training Each in This Book's Distinct Ways8. Culture Powers--64 Powers, Why All Cultures are Merely High Performances and Vice Versa9. Taking Place--Creative City Theory and Practice, 64 Tools10. A Science of Excellence: 54 Orthogonal Disciplines that Cut Across All Traditional Disciplines and Determine Who Rises to their Tops11. Super Selling--26 Methods, 33 Cases12. Knowledge Epitome--A New Kind of Education from a New Kind of Face-to-Faceness--Social Automata--Not from New Technologies and Media13. Getting Real about Creativity in Business--64 Toolsforthcoming:14. A Model of 45 Models of Innovation15. A Model of the 64 Dynamics of High Tech Ventures16. BioSense--A New Commonsense replacing MechanoSense--from the 83 Computation System Types Found in Living Things17. Managing Self--Science as Our New Global Ecologic Worshipful Religion--Turning Being X into Having X18. Managing Difference--Tribes, Heathen, Enemies, Others, In and Out Groups and How They Arise from Our Brains' Architecture and Can Be Overcome THE BASICS ABOUT ME Now--Professor of Knowledge and Creativity Management at Japan's 8th ranked (by employers) private university's School of Policy Studies.Life resume in 6 year segments: child math and science and 9 years of music/voice training; 4 calculus courses at a college and 4 computer programming jobs while a student in middle & high school; zazen each morning while at MIT doing Artificial Intelligence programming and English literature; to pay tuition built 142 kids per weekend Creativity Institute; cross-registered at Wellesley to de-male-ize my own culture; was first Wellesley student accepted to practice teach in Weston schools where MIT/Harvard faculty live; to pay back world for MIT/Wellesley education worked without pay for 6 years in global NGO; set up 42 participatory town meetings in Japan, Korea, China, Europe, and USA; doubled income of Korea's poorest villages; visited 50 US cities per year doing fund raising; set up 10-day 800-person mass workshop event in Hokkaido, Japan that generated 16 fully staffed, legal, funded business ventures; set up artificial intelligence systems while studying Deming Award quality levels at Matsushita Electric and Sekisui Chemical in Japan; lived in Japan 6 years the first time I went there; came back to US and got 3 grad degrees from Univ. of Michigan; consulted intiated P&G's systems links to Walmart, fractal interfaces for US government; founded seven business units in EDS, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, and Xerox PARC (details listed elsewhere on this page); Published Implementing Japanese AI Techniques and Global Quality with McGraw Hill (check Amazon.com); published my Univ. of Michigan homework as a book which Univ. of Chicago faculty read and offerred me a teaching job 2 years before my Phd.; taught at Univ. of Chicago Grad School of Business for five years; 14 years ago joined my present Japanese university in order to be left alone enough to write 15,000 pages of books I have now finished and another 10,000 pages of books yet to finish; finished massive Orthogonal Disciplines research project started at U of Chicago; present turn toward arts via comedy novel, design events, applying 60 models of creativity to develop design theory and research. (Less)