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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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

MARCH 27, 2017

How are you boosting your creative thinking skills in dramatic ways for 2017 and beyond? It features forty-five creativity and innovation experts! The Innovation and Creativity Summit 2017 is a virtual event running from this coming Sunday through the following Sunday. Max McKeown – Author of The Innovation Book.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 1, 2021

The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking? Taken from the e-book, How to Generate Ideas. The Random Word method is very good. Here is another brainstorm method for you to try – Roll the Dice.

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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. Diversity is a terrible thing to waste.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 23, 2016

What if your fear of being wrong is so great that you can’t even start implementing creative ideas that are just for you for fear you’ll goof something up? Typically, the creative thinking exercises we teach and use are a huge source of hope to get past fears about self-judged “bad” ideas. Is there hope? Sure, there is hope.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2018

Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders , my new Brainzooming book on daily innovation, is now available on Amazon.com. We’ll be officially celebrating the book’s launch on Monday, July 23 with a live presentation at 11:00 am Central Daylight Time (US).

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 18, 2024

Dedicate specific time in your schedule for day dreaming, creative thinking and imagination. Harness the Random: Deliberately introduce random ideas into your thinking. Read Widely: Read books, articles, and content from different fields to gain a broader knowledge base. Be Humorous: Humour is a form of lateral thinking.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2020

Learn what works in innovation from these ten books. Here are ten books every innovator should crack as they build a new innovation approach. This book lays out how businesses can do everything right and still lose out on innovation. Thinkertoys , by Michael Michalko Creative thinking can be a struggle for some.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 23, 2017

One day he and I had a discussion about creative thinking and I brought up the principle of adaptation. It was, as Dr. Atul Gawande describes it in his provocative new book, “The Checklist Manifesto,” an idea so simple that it seemed downright loopy. • What ideas outside my field can I incorporate? I have a friend who is a chef.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Further info/Source Exercise is based on creative thinking techniques described in book of Michael Michalko “Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques” The exercise was implemented in the Training Course CREATIVE LEADERSHIP that has been funded with support from the European Commission.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Innovation Encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving as a group. In these presentations, speakers may present case studies of successful innovative teams, discuss barriers to innovation and how to overcome them, and offer techniques to stimulate creative thinking and problem-solving within a team.

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Michael Michalko

JULY 26, 2022

Michael Michalko’s creative thinking techniques give you the extraordinary ability to focus on information in a different way and different ways to interpret what you are focusing on. Creativity consists of seeing what no one else is seeing, to think what no one else is thinking, and doing what others had wish they had done.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 7, 2023

Teenagers did show higher creativity on the social challenge though. A 2014 review, 2014 book and 2016 book indicate that higher levels of imaginative pretend play in childhood helps enhance creativity in adulthood. Another 2012 study showed that pretend play and creativity were also linked.

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Michael Roberto

JUNE 27, 2019

Bryan Collins has written an article for Forbes about the core ideas in my book, Unlocking Creativity. He has some terrific new examples of his own regarding the mindsets that inhibit creativity in many organizations. You also can listen to my appearance on Bryan's podcast through this link.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 3, 2018

And the best strategy to boost their creative leadership talents is to get copies of Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Attracting and Cultivating Creative Business Leaders for all your team members. This Brainzooming book demonstrates the value of stronger creativity. Your Go-To Resource for High-Impact Creative Thinking!

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques. Michael later applied these creative-thinking techniques to problems in the corporate world with outstanding successes. CEO-READ listed Thinkertoys as one of the 100 Best Business Books of all Time.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their creative thinking. Ask participants to draw a personal symbol that metaphorically symbolizes their view about creativity. SIX WORD BOOKS. A six word description of creative thinking could be: “Last night confused. It can be anything…….an

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

(Michael Michalko is the author of Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques; Cracking Creativity: The Thinking Strategies of Creative Geniuses; Thinkpak: A Brainstorming Card Deck , and Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work. CREATIVE THINKERING BOOK REVIEW.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example, if you like reading, work in a book shop and do lots of evening classes.” Lisa Randall professor of physics at Harvard University “Think about the big problems while working on the small ones and vice versa. CEO-READ listed Thinkertoys as one of the 100 Best Business Books of all Time.

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 13, 2022

Creative Corner Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Let’s Do Lunch Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2018

I have (finally) written a book on creative leadership. The book, Idea Magnets – 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders , emerged from my experiences working with and knowing Idea Magnets throughout my career. Related posts Creative Leadership – Do Idea Magnets Get a Pass on Empathy?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Oh, I almost forget, you cannot buy this book anywhere. Reading the book is fine, but it's a little like watching a Bruce Lee movie and expecting to break bricks five minutes later. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Oh, I almost forget, you cannot buy this book anywhere. Reading the book is fine, but it's a little like watching a Bruce Lee movie and expecting to break bricks five minutes later. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

SIX WORD BOOKS. A recent book published by Smith Magazine carried the intriguing title, Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. This book and similar collections of extremely short prose have been inspired by a six-word novel said to have been written by Ernest Hemingway on a dare.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

If you want to collaboratively engage your team (or multiple teams) in a strategic and creative thinking process in which any of them can discover the secret to creative success, then it’s time to contact us. Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

STORYTELLING FOR THE REVOLUTION : Book about the power of personal storytelling. FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams. STORYTELLING AT WORK : Award-winning book about the power of personal storytelling in the workplace. Founded in 1999.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2018

I share this story because as we’ve been working on the manuscript for a new Brainzooming book on Idea Magnets and creative leadership , I’ve been thinking a lot about how leaders and followers encourage each another. .” I thanked him for showing up early to lead it.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 23, 2022

That is, why are the letters of a book backward but not upside down, and why would Feynman’s double behind the mirror appear to have a mole on the wrong hand? In addition, he created Thinkpak (A Brainstorming Card Set) , which is a novel creative-thinking tool that is designed to facilitate brainstorming sessions.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Six years ago, when Amazon sold primarily print books, company research showed that customers liked e-books—a new product that threatened Amazon’s core business. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer.

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BrainZooming

JULY 23, 2018

Today, Monday, July 23, we’re launching the new Brainzooming book, Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders. My objective in writing this new book was to help individuals cultivate their personal strengths as Idea Magnets, attracting other Idea Magnets through their creative energy.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Turn a conference room into an upbeat “think tank” room. Read odd books — having nothing to do with your work. Block off time on your calendar for creative thinking. Use creative thinking techniques. Initiate cross-functional brainstorming sessions. Arrive earlier to the office than anyone else.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Have you ever wondered where big, breakthrough ideas come from? How do innovators manage to spot the opportunities for industry revolution that everyone else seems to miss?

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2018

The next natural question in our conversation was about what types of strategic thinking questions to ask. While I think there’s a Brainzooming blog post for this, it was almost faster to write a new, updated list of questions than to find the post. 21 Strategic Thinking Questions When You Have Nothing to Ask. via Shutterstick.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 22, 2016

Oh, I almost forget, you cannot buy this book anywhere. Reading the book is fine, but it's a little like watching a Bruce Lee movie and expecting to break bricks five minutes later. It's not for sale. We thought about selling it, but that felt like a sell-out. So we're not selling it.

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