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. Or, in other words, you had to break normal thinking patterns, something that the new Esquire said it could help modern men do.

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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

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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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Where consciousness encapsulates our states and qualities of mind, our capacity for imagination and curiosity are the necessary states of mind that stimulate creativity , all of which propel successful innovators to bring the new to the world differently. Creativity is wonderfully mysterious—and frustratingly fleeting.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You might learn more than people, or the objects you’re studying, superficially reveal.” Dean Simonton professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis “Know your stuff: creativity requires expertise; but don’t know it too well: overspecialisation puts blinders on. Listen carefully and pay close attention.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

With 33 years’ experience as a photographer for National Geographic — earning not one but two images in the magazine’s “ 50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic ” exhibit — he is a master of his craft. Instead he learned to follow his dad’s advice: “Compose and wait, Sammy.

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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. How can the facilitators of brainstorm sessions learn how to dependably spark creativity in others? or in a school.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Many have not even heard of the magazine, let alone its famous caption contest. But I’d like to think unfamiliarity is par for the course, as even fewer of them expect a weekly humor competition to be a graded portion of their capstone marketing class. It’s classic New Yorker humor.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

When we think about extraordinary workplaces, we tend to think of the billion-dollar companies at the top of Fortune magazine’s annual list. To achieve top performance, we must first recognize and learn from our mistakes. What would be different the next time you entered the building?

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

If the challenge is too high a level, creative thinking will be all over the place. Only after this process do we have data and learnings to make informed decisions on which ideas to move into our project portfolio for further development. Start by running a pilot campaign, learn lessons, and scale it up the next time.

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Michael Michalko

AUGUST 12, 2018

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. Learn how to tolerate ambiguity and dwell in the grey zone. Open a magazine and free associate off the photos. Combine your ideas?

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