Michael Michalko

JUNE 1, 2017

The nine-dot puzzle was popularized by William North Jayme, a direct-mail copywriter who was hired by Esquire magazine in 1958 because they wanted to abandon their unwholesome image for a more sophisticated one. Apparently, if we think “outside the box” once, we are done and our thinking is done.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Ask participants to draw a personal symbol that metaphorically symbolizes their view about creativity. 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. A six-word description of creative thinking could be: “Last night confused.

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BrainZooming

JULY 13, 2016

When it comes to whether an organization demonstrates ample creativity and new ideas, you have to place a load of responsibility on the leadership. How the leaders encourage and cultivate new ideas (or don’t) will affect the volume and richness of creativity throughout the organization. Leaders Supporting Creativity and New Ideas.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Creativity special: Ten top tips Tom Ward senior research fellow in the Center for Creative Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and editor of the Journal of Creative Behavior “Merge two previously separate concepts that are in conflict with one another. When you become an expert, move on.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. magazine about a consultant selling two-day business planning , we saw a possibility. After that, whenever we designed a strategic planning workshop, we made deliberate design decisions on the right balance of creative thinking and focused plan building.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 6, 2018

Ask the most creative people at work for their ideas. Block off time on your calendar for creative thinking. Choose to be more creative. Recall a time in your life when you were very creative. Wander around a bookstore while thinking about your challenge. Use creative thinking techniques.

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 10, 2021

His international team applied those methods to various NATO military, political, and social problems and in doing so it produced a variety of breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to new and old problems. After leaving the military, Michael facilitated CIA think tanks using his creative thinking techniques.

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Innovators Alliance

MARCH 22, 2024

Importantly, an organization’s mindset is not just a reflection of how employees think, but how the organization directs energy and resources to execute its strategy and achieve its purpose. I hope you enjoy this excerpt from an article I wrote for BOSS Magazine that introduces the importance of measuring an organization’s mindset.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In last month’s blog , we shared how consciousness , imagination, and curiosity are the fundamental precursors to creativity, invention, and innovation. Creativity is wonderfully mysterious—and frustratingly fleeting. Curiosity and creativity spur innovation Curiosity is derived from the Latin “cura” which means to care.

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ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

Requiring us to make sense of and navigate the paradoxical nature of innovation leadership, by developing multiple perspectives to re-think how to respond positively and creatively to the high levels of tension and range of massive disruptions we collectively face in our current high-speed, constantly changing, global operating environments.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The anti-brainstorming forces are also fond of asserting that creativity is stifled in a brainstorming session. Earth to journalists on deadline writing about brainstorming for a flight magazine. Whenever two or more people with egos get together, creativity has the potential to be stifled. or in a school. or in a school.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Releasing the creative potential in your organization will provide you with a powerful new resource that can take you into the future. If the challenge is too high a level, creative thinking will be all over the place. Idea campaigns are all based on the simple concept that the more people who contribute ideas, the better.

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Michael Michalko

AUGUST 12, 2018

Ask the most creative person you know. • Think about what it is you still don’t understand about the problem. Learn and use the creative thinking techniques creative geniuses have used throughout history. Open a magazine and free associate off the photos. Cut out interesting magazine and newspaper pictures.

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