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7 TENETS OF CREATIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

What are the mental processes, attitudes, work habits, behaviors, and beliefs that enable creative geniuses to view the same things as the rest of us, yet see something different? You Are Creative. Artists are not special, but each of us is a special kind of artist who enters the world as a creative and spontaneous thinker.

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SIMPLE WAYS TO INCREASE CREATIVITY IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

Michael Michalko

Simply put, the key to increasing creativity in any organization is to make it start acting like a creative organization. Similarly, you and your organization will become more creative if you start acting the part. Similarly, you and your organization will become more creative if you start acting the part.

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What Does a Coffee Cup Tell you About Yourself ?

Michael Michalko

Michael Michalko is the highly-acclaimed 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.

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SIMPLE WAYS TO INCREASE CREATIVITY IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

Michael Michalko

Simply put, the key to increasing creativity in any organization is to make it start acting like a creative organization. Similarly, you and your organization will become more creative if you start acting the part. Similarly, you and your organization will become more creative if you start acting the part.

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TOP TEN TIPS FOR CREATIVITY

Michael Michalko

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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IdeaScale Launches a Successful Self-Paced Course on: Excelling at Innovation

IdeaScale

His course draws from the book he co-authored, Creating Value with CO-STAR: An Innovation Tool for Perfecting and Pitching your Brilliant Idea, as well as the Global Innovation Science Handbook. Idea Generation : Many of us can struggle with the idea that we’re “not creative.”

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CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THINGS AND THE THINGS YOU LOOK AT CHANGE

Michael Michalko

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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