Putting the Tarot to Work: Creative Problem Solving, Effective Decision Making & Personal Career Planning

by Mark McElroy

Forego fortune telling for fortune making!
You have your cell phone, your pager, and your palm pilot. But a Tarot deck? Why not? It’s the perfect tool for thinking outside the box.

Business manager and consultant Mark McElroy has worked and thrived in the corporate pressure cooker. Let him show you the secrets of using the cards to boost your creativity, make better decisions, and increase your value as a boss or employee. Apply this versatile tool today to clarify your values, define your goals, and restore meaning to your career. The cards can even help you to plan productive meetings, breathe new life into dull presentations, and improve business relationships.

Genres: Tarot, Divination

Paperback

First published February 8, 2004

About the author

After escaping his home town of Anniston, Alabama, in a rainbow-hued balloon, Mark McElroy was kidnapped by post-modern minimalists at the prestigious Center for Writers (University of Southern Mississippi), where he earned an MA in creative writing. During that time, he designed and taught in the nation’s first computer-aided collaborative writing classroom, earned his first writer’s paycheck with a wince-worthy comic book script, and began coming to terms with the fact that, despite having been groomed as a fundamentalist minister, he was definitely gay.

Since then, he’s authored more than a dozen non-fiction books on subjects from Apple Computers (101 Reasons to Switch to the Mac, from Que Books) to lucid dreaming (Lucid Dreaming for Beginners, for Llewellyn Publications). He’s also designed and scripted more than a dozen Tarot decks for publishers in the US (Llewellyn) and Italy (Lo Scarabeo). His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Unlike his characters, Mark lives a quiet and happy life with Clyde (his husband for thirty-one years) and their two rescue dogs, Sunny Day and Windy Day. Parallel Lines is his first novel.

Reviews

[Lpc · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wonder why this book isn't more popular. It's the first book I've come across that talks about using tarot at work. Lots of ideas on how to use tarot to brainstorm, figure out problems, help with presentations, employee performance reviews, career development.

[Marcello Tarot · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lo stile dell’autore è brioso (talvolta anche troppo), spesso spiritoso, ma nei contenuti è decisamente troppa l’enfasi sul brainstorming, così come sono eccessivi gli esempi di vita vissuta ma in contesti aziendali americani che non solo lasciano il tempo che trovano bensì che risultano spesso disumanizzanti, visti da fuori.
Si trova, nel libro, un’estensione dei significati dei tarocchi per gli ambiti lavoro e carriera? Sì, ma...
Sì trovano, nel libro, stese per gli ambiti lavoro e carriera? Sì, ma...
“Sì, ma...”, appunto: il tutto è incentrato sulle grandi compagnie americane e nel com-plesso sembra più un libro di nicchia che non un libro che possa essere usato davvero quale estensione specializzata negli ambiti carriera e lavoro.
Pagine e pagine di nulla riempiono i capitoli, con caratteri piccoli e un’interlinea fin troppo spaziata.

[Martin Spernau · Rating 4 out of 5]

This my introduction to working with cards, and I haven't stopped doing that yet. This is NOT about fortune-telling or classical "reading the cards," but much more about using decks of cards in creative ways... for brainstorming, clarifying thoughts, story-telling...

[Rose Vanden Eynden · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting concepts for using Tarot in work situations. I will keep this book as a reference for further study.