Cracking Creativity

Author: Michael Michalko
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 0307790363
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
From the bestselling author of Thinkertoys, this follow up brings innovative creative thinking techniques within reach, giving you the tools to tackle everyday challenges in new ways. Internationally renowned business creativity expert, Michael Michalko will show you how creative people think—and how to put their secrets to work for you in business and in your personal life. You don't have to be a genius to solve problems like one. Michalko researched and analyzed hundreds of history's greatest thinkers across disciplines—from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso—to bring the best of their techniques together and to teach you how to apply them in your own life. Cracking Creativity is filled with exercises and anecdotes that will soon have you looking at problems and seeing many different solutions.

Creative Thinkering

Author: Michael Michalko
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608680258
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Why isn’t everyone creative? Why doesn’t education foster more ingenuity? Why is expertise often the enemy of innovation? Bestselling creativity expert Michael Michalko shows that in every ?eld of endeavor — from business and science to government, the arts, and even day-to-day life — natural creativity is limited by the prejudices of logic and the structures of accepted categories and concepts. Through step-by-step exercises, illustrated strategies, and inspiring real-world examples, he shows readers how to liberate their thinking and literally expand their imaginations by learning to synthesize dissimilar subjects, think paradoxically, and enlist the help of the subconscious mind. He also reveals the attitudes and approaches that diverse geniuses share — and anyone can emulate. Fascinating and fun, Michalko’s strategies facilitate the kind of lightbulb-moment thinking that changes lives — for the better.

Cracking the Creativity Code

Author: Arie Ruttenberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789351508014
Category : Creative ability
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Creativity is an acquired skill, one that improves with practice. This title shows you how! The book provides a proven method for generating world-changing ideas. It empowers individuals who have given up on their innate creativity, who believe that they have lost their creative powers through years of disuse. In a light, entertaining style, the authors describe their unique, structured approach to creativity. To bring the reader closer to this lost art, the authors present a 'Zoom in, Zoom out, Zoom in' technique to make 'creation' more accessible to everyone

Cracking the Curiosity Code

Author: Diane Hamilton
Publisher: Dr. Diane Hamilton LLC
ISBN: 1642373451
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Everyone is born curious. So, what happens? Why do some people become less curious than others? For individuals, leaders, and companies to be successful, they must determine the things that hold curiosity hostage. Think of the most innovative companies and you will notice they employ people who do not accept the status quo, they aren’t reluctant to change, they evolve with the times, they look for problems to solve, and focus on asking questions. Drawing on decades research and incorporating interviews from some of the top leaders of our time, Hamilton examines the factors that impact curiosity including fear, assumptions, technology, and environment (FATE). Through her ground-breaking research, she has created the Curiosity Code Index (CCI) assessment to determine how these factors have impacted curiosity and to provide an action plan to transform individuals and organizations to help improve areas impacted by curiosity, including innovation, engagement, creativity, and productivity. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious” – Albert Einstein

Group Genius

Author: Keith Sawyer
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093582
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
"A fascinating account of human experience at its best." -- Mihá Csízentmihái, author of Flow Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong? Group Genius tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity, revealing that creativity is always collaborative -- even when you're alone. Sharing the results of his own acclaimed research on jazz groups, theater ensembles, and conversation analysis, Keith Sawyer shows us how to be more creative in collaborative group settings, how to change organizational dynamics for the better, and how to tap into our own reserves of creativity.

Cracking Up

Author: Christopher Bollas
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415122436
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Explores the inner world of human experience and suggests that the rhythm of that experience, is vital to individual creativity

Thinkertoys

Author: Michael Michalko
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 0307757900
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
Rethink the Way You Think In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas? In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From the linear to the intuitive, this comprehensive handbook details ingenious creative-thinking techniques for approaching problems in unconventional ways. Through fun and thought-provoking exercises, you’ll learn how to create original ideas that will improve your personal life and your business life. Michalko’s techniques show you how to look at the same information as everyone else and see something different. With hundreds of hints, tricks, tips, tales, and puzzles, Thinkertoys will open your mind to a world of innovative solutions to everyday and not-so-everyday problems.

Cracking the Ad Code

Author: Jacob Goldenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521859050
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
Unlocks the secret of inventing new creative campaigns and presents practical tools to allow quick production of successful creative ideas.

Instant Creativity

Author: Brian Clegg
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN: 9780749448677
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
This collection of tried and tested techniques encourages individuals and groups to make the most of their creativity, offering more than 70 quick and simple exercises to help find fresh ideas and solutions to problems.

Fires of Invention

Author: Jeffrey Scott Savage
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606407427
Category : Dragons
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Even though technology and inventions have been outlawed in the mountain city of Cove, in order to save the city Trenton and Kallista must follow a set of mysterious blueprints to build a creature to protect them from the dragons outside their door.