Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Oh, I almost forget, you cannot buy this book anywhere. We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. 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.

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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

MARCH 23, 2017

One day he and I had a discussion about creative thinking and I brought up the principle of adaptation. They brainstormed by considering ways that animals, reptiles, insects, and birds attach themselves to plants and trees. • What ideas outside my field can I incorporate? What ideas inside my field can I incorporate?

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Why give readers tips on brainstorming only after spending eight paragraphs trying to discredit it? Nine Brainstorming Bad Habits to Break 1.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

BRAINSTORMING BOARD Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. You could describe the sale situation on a colored card, post it on the brainstorming board and ask people to post their ideas and suggestions. E.g. suppose you have difficulty closing a particular sale.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

In the same way, if we start a brainstorming session cold with a serious, uptight facilitator throwing out questions and problems to a stiff, conservative group, the chances of producing healthy ideas is minimal. Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their creative thinking. SIX WORD BOOKS.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 2, 2018

Brainstorming. Creative Thinking. However, you would be surprised to know that even the most successful businesspeople hold themselves back creatively because of ingrained patterns and “fatal flaws” in the way that we approach thinking. Problem Solving.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 22, 2016

Oh, I almost forget, you cannot buy this book anywhere. We are, however, giving it away if you bring us in to train your movers and shakers how to run brainstorm sessions. 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.

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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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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

BRAINSTORMING BOARD. Put up a bulletin board in a central area and encourage people to use it to brainstorm ideas. You could describe the sale situation on a colored card, post it on the brainstorming board and ask people to post their ideas and suggestions. CREATIVE CORNER. IDEA LOTTERY. LET’S DO LUNCH. STUPID IDEA WEEK.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

To assist you in crafting a focused agenda for your offsite, you might find valuable guidance in how to design and run a strategic planning offsite. You may want to consult resources on how to design and run a strategic planning offsite to ensure you’re on the right track.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

He is the author of the books, “ The Way of the Innovation Master ” & “ The Insane Journey ”. He is also the creator of a new & effective creative thinking methodology called “ Anti-Conventional Thinking ” as an alternative to traditional brainstorming methods.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

4 Steps of Creative Problem Solving. Ideate: brainstorm and explore ideas. Creative Problem Solving Techniques & Activities. There are many techniques and activities that can be used to apply the creative problem solving methodology to your unique challenge. Creative Problem Solving Articles.

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Rockefeller University physicist, Heinz Pagels, in his book “The Cosmic Code,” wrote that quantum physics is a kind of code that interconnects everything in the universe. When you are brainstorming for ideas and have a thought, the value of that thought depends upon how you interact with it. Can you create a new pillow?

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

(The working title of my still-to-be-written book about the experience? or teaching 26 second graders how to write and tell stories. or leading brainstorming sessions for 80 Muslim teenagers. or reinventing how meetings happen in an Islamic school, I would have thought you were hallucinating. 1,000 Muslims and a Jew ).

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Frequently, when I write a story along the lines of how to fake it until you make it some folks will say you should never fake it. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for leaders to increase strategic collaboration, engagement, and create improved results.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

To help innovation officers and wannabe innovators in their task, we’ve put together the best books to inspire you and help your company and workforce stay relevant. Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker In this classic book published in 1985, Peter F. Obviously, the books is rife with exciting anecdotes and case studies.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Which is precisely why my company, Idea Champions , is now offering forward-thinking companies a much less expensive way to stir the innovation soup -- a virtual, self-organizing, low-cost, just-in-time way that gets everyone into the act.

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Michael Michalko

JUNE 1, 2017

What if the crippled man who invented the motorized cart had defined his problem as: “How to occupy my time while lying in bed?” ” rather than “How to get out of bed and move around the house?” With creative thinking, one generates as many alternative approaches as one can.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 12, 2018

You can't think of a way to monetize the experience. You don't know how to read. You're trying to find out how you can get a free 15-day trial to my new, online creative thinking tool. You've only got two minutes left of battery life and if you don't book a cheap flight to Chicago, you're screwed.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

In Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking, we demonstrated how to build teams in a way that facilitates sharing and communication to allow both groups and individuals to grow. How to Be More Mindful at Work. How to Prevent Burnout and Improve Productivity. Beheshti, N.

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Idea Champions

MAY 16, 2017

You can't think of a way to monetize the experience. You don't know how to read. You're trying to find out how you can get a free 15-day trial to my new, online creative thinking tool. You've only got two minutes left of battery life and if you don't book a cheap flight to Chicago, you're screwed.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 27, 2017

I would have picked up a book and read it. And the more creative we are, the better the solution could be. We gather our team around in a room and want to do engage in a brainstorming session. The facilitator sets up the context and wants us to come up with creative ideas that could potentially solve the issue at hand.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

In a recent book that explores the various places where her great grandfather lived and worked, Cristen Hemingway Jaynes notes that Hemingway’s philosophy of writing aligned with the following mantra – “write honestly about what you know and stop in a place where you know what will come next.” Hemingway House, Key West, Florida.

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Michael Michalko

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

All the monkeys everywhere suddenly realized how to make the potatoes palatable by washing them. Michael Michalko is the author of Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques; Cracking Creativity: The Thinking Strategies of Creative Geniuses; and Thinkpak: A Brainstorming Card Deck.

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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. Give yourself an idea quota of 40 ideas when brainstorming. • How many of the ideas can you combine with each other? • Think paradoxically.

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