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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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Fixedness: Your Main Barrier to Creative Thinking

Innovation in Practice

Functional Fixedness – You see objects, components, and things around you, and you can’t imagine them doing different functions than what they’re designed to do. It’s just hard to imagine that because we don’t normally want to think of dry erase markers having a different structure than what we’re used to.

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Crafting the Path to Success: Designing Leadership Team Offsites for Strategic Planning Triumph

Leapfrogging

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. Preparing for the Offsite When you’re tasked with designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning, the preparation phase is critical to ensuring the event’s success.

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Creating Roadmaps for Success: How to Design and Run a Strategic Planning Offsite

Leapfrogging

To ensure your offsite is as productive as possible, it’s essential to design it with intention. For guidance on the planning process, consider reading our article on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. In summary, strategic planning offsites are instrumental in shaping a company’s future.

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6 Creative Innovation Exercises for Online Whiteboards

IdeaScale

In order to get your creative juices flowing it can be important to engage in creative thinking exercises and practice ways you can improve your innovation process. Advantages of Creative Thinking Exercises. Here are some of the advantages of using creative thinking exercises. Discovering New Ideas.

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Harness the Random with this Method

Destination Innovation

The use of chance is a key element in lateral thinking. How can you deliberately introduce chance into your creative thinking? For example say you wanted to create a new TV drama you might choose the following parameters: Lead Character. The Random Word method is very good. Secondary Character. Journalist. Restaurant.

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Practical Innovation throughout the business

Jeffrey Phillips

Many innovation tools and ways of thinking are scalable to a specific need and are reasonably user friendly, and often generate a tremendous amount of value for a small investment. But innovation and design thinking have something to offer here. Service Excellence Let me start with the idea of service excellence.