Richard Tabor Greene

Richard (also uses “Dick Greene”) lives in Tokyo works in his design studio in Fudan U Shanghai. As of March 2023 he sells 114 books on Amazon. His Creations Lead Not People program is being sold to top schools & colleges in EU, USA, & Asia by Detao Masters Academy where Richard is Master of Innovation and Creativity Sciences. He is a graduate of MIT in AI, with 2 MAs and 1 PHD from the University of Michigan. His first academic job was faculty at the Univ. of Chicago Booth School.

Richard's calling card says he is "an Expert in Expertise" having published research studies on top people in 63 professions after building artificial intelligence "expert systems" of 50+ world best designers.

Last 4 pages of each book usually has 3 black page MAPS of 40 groups of Richard's book by similar topic--a guide to what to buy first, second, third, last. Also 2 books--UPPING OUR CREATIVITY GAME are guides to what to buy when. Vol. 1 is short paragraphs for each group of books and for each book Vol. 2 is cover and table of contents for each of our first 110 books.

Everywhere he lived he created new techs at a top 5 company there, taught at the top college there, and taught at the poorest college there. He invented methods that allowed the poorest students to pass the same exams as given to those at the top college in each city of the 16 he lived in thus far. He CHOSE to demonstrate that ordinary human intelligence, even when badly schooled, is MORE THAN ENOUGH to learn the hardest maths, social sciences, and software techs IF NEW METHODS are taught first. It is tragic--he writes--that a 2% difference in mental speed--is used by entire societies to doom 1/3 of their populations to poor incomes, health, safety, and neighborhoods/jobs. He wants this dismal failure of our modern democracies to serve their populations to get fixed.

His books violate a number of traditional print publisher manias, centuries old. He imports web writing innovations INTO PRINT books so both his ebooks and print books impose new styles, using repetition, skips from macro to micro and back, one page huge fractal models of main points in 20 books on a topic and like print innovations. His books REFUSE common national, gender, political, profession, culture prejudices--so Americans reading him will be nudged repeatedly to NOT feel and think American-ly, to get their very selves BIGGER, beyond the Initial Factory Settings of who and what raised them (formally this is the definition of "being educated" and being "adult"). The same for members of this or that "religion of business" bandying god like phrases where all thought stops "optimize shareholder value" "efficient markets" "price clearing equilibrium". If you worship such phrases Richard's books will make it tough on you to respect your self. His book DELIBERATELY mix easy entry chapters with bridge middling ones with edge of field super hard ones--so any 1 of his books can support years of study and application.

His 1st 2 McGraw Hill books both won prizes, after that he reinvented book form using web best features revised for print books. ALSO his books (now by BEST MOST FIRST Press) all EXPAND number, detail, apply-ability, diversity of what he presents--to fix dated "single right-y model" habits from schools. Our situations demand mixes of diverse models from diverse fields but in uniform formats allowing easy mixing and sequencing so one model fixes another's flaws and omissions. Sets of model OUT PERFORM single models however "right-y" or "elite" they may be. Readers can trust--reading each of 30 of 60 models of one topic--creativity, design, invention etc. in his books GROWS MENTAL POWER of what you notice and how you solve/respond. This also FIXES the undergrad error of seeking 1 rightest model when mixes vastly outperform any one right-ish model. . ------1) experts use more models than novices as our books do 2) experts evolve thru diverse models as in our books 3) prose hides its point contents but our books use exoskeleton making points visually evident, numbered, named 4) other books are only case stories, fun but un-apply-able, our books give models of what to change to change what else 5) our books do culture change work undoing cultures: male, econ, MBA, USA, technonerd, capitalism, monkey hierarchy 6) top colleges/firms make minds ever tinier narrower fractions of what all of us face, our books fix that 7) OECD democracies are attacked by differences extremizing, our books use 16 KINDS of sociality to make people WANT differences resolved 8) web makes all publish to all till all extremize fighting for attention but SURPRISING MODELS from our books make extremes unneeded 9) people cannot turn facts into procedures but our books give you STEPS = PROCEDURAL LITERACY not fact piles.

BS, MIT in artificial intelligence, BA, Wellesley in creative writing (under WH Auden, Ray Bradbury, Lillian Hellman, Robert Pinsky), MA Asian business, MA web communities PHD total quality researching from U Michigan. After MIT he fixed failing NGO projects--tripling incomes in Jeju Korea, launching 42 participatory democracy meetings all over Japan, visiting the 2000 richest Americans for donations. He democratized and speeded up technology delivery, with his High Tech Circles invention, in 2 Japanese firms (Sekisui, Panasonic), 2 EU firms (NVPhilips, Thompson Paris, 3 USA firms (EDS, C&Lybrand, Xerox PARC). He launched 3 venture tech firms in Silicon Valley (2 are still alive).

Founders of the U of Chicago Business School invited him onto their faculty 2 years before his PHD where he taught 7 years (with his Japanese wife teaching in another department there). They went to Japan where Richard wrote up his EXCELLENCE SCIENCE Research from U Chicago in 22 books while teaching at Temple U, Keio U, Beijing U. He is the only American to win both the Deming Prize in Japan and Baldrige Award in the USA.

He designs all his own clothes, displaying 600 suit designs in fashion shows in Japan and selling designs in China. He enjoys stand up comedy, writing songs, distance cycling, daily weight lifting. His life includes goofy stuff--riding 600 miles on top of industrial refrigerators with 8 church pastors, working 3 jobs = 24 hours a day for 6 months, singing/speaking French with the poorest people in Japan (they knew no English, he knew no Japanese), daily soaks in a downtown Yakuza sento with floating sake boats on hot waters and nude mixed bathing (though illegal in Japan), designing an 800 person one week event that designed and launched 16 venture businesses in Yubari Japan, and more.