BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I wanted my creative thinking skills to be strong enough to do the same thing. My reaction that day led to exploring ideas for how to boost my creative thinking skills to make comparable intriguing connections. Creative Thinking Skills Test – Bending the Random to the Planned.

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Exago

AUGUST 10, 2017

The tool to deliver this change is creative thinking, in the hands of a leadership that believes in and embodies its principles. The post Creativity, creative leadership and the value of innovation management appeared first on Exago. From janitor to CEO, everyone should be involved in daily in your innovation process.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 1, 2018

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Interested in disrupting thinking in your organization to boost innovation?

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Idea to Value

MAY 11, 2022

If you want to improve your creativity , what is more likely to make you better in the long run: Creating a large volume of average-quality work, or focusing on a single piece and working tirelessly to try and make it perfect? A large number of creatives think that in order to make anything worthwhile, you need to strive for perfection.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 6, 2024

This results in resistance to the creative changes using Generative AI might bring because they lack the vital creative and emotional energy to generate creative thinking with AI; they will typically resist innovation-led change and stay ‘stuck’ in their habitual, safe and conventional roles, capabilities and identities.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. How do you move from creative thinking into action? Two of the client’s senior staff members said this was a question they expected us to answer during the strategic thinking workshop.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking. We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 25, 2022

Unlocking Innovation with Data, Creativity, and Automation. For some, it may be through hard work and determination, while others may find success through innovation with creativity, data, and automation. In this podcast recap blog post, we will discuss how innovation derived from creativity, data, and automation can lead to success.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I attended a presentation on cultivating a creative culture delivered by Michael Perman, formerly of Gap, at The Marketing Conference last week in San Francisco. During his keynote, Perman discussed twenty-plus three-day creativity sessions he organized while at Gap. What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Creative Thinking Skills. ” – Brené Brown on hurdles that stand between an idea and celebrated creativity. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. “It is easier to correct errors than to try to prevent them all.” ” – Ed Catmull of Pixar.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2016

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

Short Story: When it comes to creativity, start with and return to the underlying strategy ; that’s the most important piece of creative advice I have to offer. I’ve been trying to let go of some creative reins on the Brainzooming brand. 8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

From a day-to-day perspective in the corporate world, we didn’t necessarily use objective metrics about creative ideas. After talking with a friend, I think the percent of time you are told to pull back your creative ideas because they are too big and bold may be a good way to assess how your creativity is faring in an organization.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Through creativity and innovation, from the earliest origin of man, we have been creating and shaping tools - fire, sharpened sticks for tools and weapons, the wheel and thousands upon thousands of other tools and devices. The ability to sit and write a blog that others may read (or ignore) at their leisure.

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Technology Created

DECEMBER 13, 2014

There are over 100 million WordPress and Tumblr blogs. Or do better tools actually make for worse creativity and less productivity? Does the small and the simple pull us away from developing skills, ideas and creative flow? Is “Game of Thrones” a major source of what we see, the landscape of creativity that we view?

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Innovation in Practice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Can you really learn to be more creative? Imagine if you went to a meeting with your colleagues and you all got ready to just pop a pill in your mouth, a magic creativity, pill, and voila! . In this episode, you’ll learn how different drugs can help (or impair) your creativity. . What, instead, if you could just take a pill?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Ten years into the Brainzooming blog , it seemed right to have someone else tell the story from a fresh perspective. Ten Years Now and Mike Brown Has a Blog – Emma Alvarez Gibson. I don’t think I had any clue, at the start, about the impact the blog would have on my life.”. Happy blog anniversary, Mike.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Vague Descriptions Boost Creativity: By keeping associations vague, it allows people to bring their own perspective to the mind map and gets their creative juices flowing. Overcome Creative Blocks: By providing context and clear avenues for ideation, mind maps help overcome common innovation roadblocks. Overcome Creative Blocks.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I recorded a video for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) that ties into my presentation at their conference on creative thinking skills and “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.”. A big part of improving your creative thinking does not necessarily mean setting aside time to have offsite meetings and generate ideas.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2016

We were on a call with an extended creative team generating ideas for client videos. During breaks, I found myself jotting down examples of important creative thinking skills the team was exhibiting. 7 Important Creative Thinking Skills. It can open the way to getting others to support your thinking, as well.

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BrainZooming

MAY 3, 2016

We were working with a client and sharing the value of our extreme creativity strategic exercises to boost creative thinking skills. Another reason to embrace extreme creativity questions is they provide a more beautiful, amazing mental landscape to inspire creative thinking skills. A bland backdrop (i.e.,

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BrainZooming

MAY 4, 2016

Ever felt as if your main creative outlet just isn’t working anymore ? I’m WAY off my creative thinking game when it comes to putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard. I have some ideas why this is the case, and have been trying to document the reasons my go-to creative outlet isn’t working right now.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 13, 2016

That conversation, and a related one on creative thinking and what is funny got me reflecting on a day in my life and the creative thinking and creative self-talk that goes on behind the scenes. As I started to jot down ideas from the day, it read like a bunch of creative thinking policies and non-policies.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

I used to think creative inspiration came from inside. As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 27, 2018

So, if you are on your own and need help to generate a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry , it’s a simple creative thinking formula: A magazine with lots of pictures and headlines +. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Sticky notes +. A few minutes =.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Today’s creative thinking post is all about music. That’s why these music videos are the centerpiece of today’s creative thinking post. She was an inspiration for perhaps the last music-oriented blog post I wrote. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. Force Yourself to Self-Evaluate.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2016

Delivering a creative thinking workshop , I was eavesdropping on conversations at five tables full of attendees. One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. When this takes happens, creative thinking exercises becomes just that many more boxes to shut down ideas that are off the beaten path.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

If you’ve read the Brainzooming blog for any length of time, you’ve seen Chuck Dymer’s name multiple times. Chuck has been an incredible influence on my career, especially as it comes to creative thinking skills. Chuck was the first person I heard deliver an in-depth presentation on creative thinking skills.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I have also since seen a mounting amount of scientific research showing how women do not even get the same credit for their creativity or innovation work as if a man were to suggest the same idea. The main thing is to start with creativity- understand that creativity is the engine for innovation. Twitter: natwnixon.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 12, 2016

When I have a TOUGH time coming up with blogging topics, I scour my blogging notebooks for junk ideas to turn into blog post treasures. I also push my creative thinking skills and look through newspaper or magazine articles to inspire ideas. 15 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Junk Ideas into Treasures.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. For example, at one of our client creative thinking workshops there wasn’t any of diversity to spare.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

It’s always incredible to work directly with Brainzooming blog readers in supporting their companies’ innovation strategy objectives. Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 26, 2025

This sense of restlessness continues to spark disruptive and creative changes in my life; as a result, it has taught me several key distinctions being braver, daring, courageous, responsible, and accountable throughout my forty-year professional career, which has spanned a period of being different and disruptive.

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