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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.

传记与作者历程

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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名言

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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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"Chris Lewis gives us permission to Stop, Think, Dream, Be and shows us how to replace Hurry Sickness with creative success"

Pippa Malmgren

"Chris Lewis has seen the danger of being overwhelmed by the particular and the need to restore the balanced life"

Richard Chartres

"Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren practise what they preach in The Infinite Leader"

Greg Clark

"Chris Lewis's book is an aide memoir to the importance and enriching power of creativity in business"

Mark Borkowski

"Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren always provide unique and relevant perspectives on the key leadership issues and trends of the day"

Robert J. Herbold

"Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren are brilliant in their guidance to manage the imbalances, foster deeper inclusion and ensure greater integrity"

Helen Anderson

"Chris Lewis provides a timely and apposite reminder for all leaders of the need to confront conventional practices"

John Peters

"My warmest congratulations to Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren"

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