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Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis is a London-based business author and entrepreneur whose work explores creativity, leadership and social impact. He wrote the bestselling Too Fast to Think and co-authored The Leadership Lab, The Infinite Leader and Greater: Britain After the Storm, which won Parliamentary Book of the Year. He founded the global consultancy TEAM LEWIS.

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Chris Lewis is a British business author, journalist, and communications entrepreneur whose public profile has been built less on confessional autobiography than on a long record of media, advisory, and leadership work. He studied at Lancaster University in 1983 and 1984, later describing a career that grew out of creativity, media, and consulting rather than a single literary lane. In the 1990s he founded LEWIS, now TEAM LEWIS, and over time turned it into a large independent marketing and communications group. That business expansion became one of the central turning points in his writing life: the agency gave him a practical vantage point from which to think about creativity, institutions, and leadership at scale. ((https://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrislewis4?utm_source=openai))

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nobody is allowed to be bored, stare into space or waste time
-Too Fast To Think: why switching off unlocks creativity
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All competence follows preference. It’s impossible to get good at stuff you don’t like
-Shut Down Email and Reclaim Creativity
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Tools should be our servants, we should not serve
-Fighting Infobesity With Chris Lewis
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Subconsciously or not, if we want to have better ideas, we really do have to stop and allow ourselves time to think
-You must switch off to be creative
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Creativity needs calm
-How to replace 'hurry sickness' with creative success

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