Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Section 1: The Path of an Improvised Life -- 1 Life Is a Talent Show, With Many Sidebars -- My First Report Card -- The Gaftop Realization -- And Then There Was Gig -- 2 Comedy Jobs -- The Good... -- The Bad... -- ...and The Ugly -- 3 Business Finds Me -- The Great State of Texas -- UN Desk -- The Hicks -- AT&T -- MBA Schools -- Networking -- Clients Who Care -- Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Teamwork -- Change Management -- Motivation, Stress Reduction, New Staff, Kick-Offs -- 4 What Do You DO? -- Section B: The Improvised Life -- 5 You Too Can be a Professional Comedian! -- The Mystery Problem -- The Third Career -- 6 Plays Well With Others -- It Still Counts -- Yes, and... -- Business -- Life -- 7 The Improvised Life -- Humor -- The Moment -- Respect -- Loving Your Collaborators -- 8 Now and Forever -- Ease and Creativity -- Improvisation and the New -- 9 How to Feel Joy, Opportunity, Peace, and Success -- Confidence and Trust -- 10 Can You Prove It? -- Humor and Health -- 4 Out of 5 Doctors -- Humor and Productivity -- What Your Team Really Wants -- The Group Mind -- The Federal Judges and the Airborne Group Mind -- C-Section: The Handbook For an Improvised Life -- 11 Ready to Play Improv? -- Where to Start? -- 12 Improv Basics -- Games and Scenes -- Yes and... -- Relationships -- Who What and Where -- Failure -- IFHE -- 13 Improv for Fun and Health -- * World's Worst -- Private Play -- Feel Like a Dork? -- Play Well With Others -- 14 Improvisation For Business -- Listening -- Communication -- Business Decisions -- Co-creativity, Collaboration, and Teamwork -- Other Games for Business -- Other Skills -- 15 Improvisation For Professional Entertainment -- Tech Skills -- Management -- Event Design -- Let's Talk Improvisation! -- Warm-Ups and Exercises -- Music, Style, and Movement.

Yes and... -- Start a Group and Book a Show -- The Mystery Problem Returns! -- Coda: Communion, Community, Communication -- Appendix: An Improvised Life on the Road: Tour Journal Excerpts -- Five Basic Rules for Improv Scenes -- The Games: Quick Reference -- In Their Own Words: The Power of Improv and Play as Told by Artistic Directors, Players, and Clients -- Author Biography.

Les McGehee's [i]Plays Well With Others[/i] is a breezy how-to book by an improvising pioneer that is part autobiography and part field guide to the life and habits of successful improvisers. It offers rare insights gained through over 20 years of improv experience in how to incorporate humor and positive affirmation of in-the-moment opportunities guaranteed to enhance both your business and personal life. With techniques McGehee uses in MBA and government programs, [i]Plays Well With Others[/i] provides the basics for the layman and clear advanced tricks of the trade for the professional improviser. Cleverly divided into sections that can be read independently, the reader can delve deep or graze into the fields of play McGehee so clearly describes. It contains autobiographical passages illustrating how the improvisational life works, an annotated list of classic improv games for business and entertainment, diary entries of improv tours, statistical references on the successful implementation of improvisational techniques in business, and recommendations on how to further your improv education locally, nationally, and internationally.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.