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7 TENETS OF CREATIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

In school, we learn about geniuses and their ideas, but how did they get those ideas? 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. 2 Creative Thinking Is Work.

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4 Mindsets to Grow Through Innovation

Innovators Alliance

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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7 WAYS TO WAKE UP YOUR IMAGINATION

Michael Michalko

Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their creative thinking. Ask participants to draw a personal symbol that metaphorically symbolizes their view about creativity. A six word description of creative thinking could be: “Last night confused. It can be anything…….an It can be anything…….an

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ENERGIZE YOUR BRAINSTORMING

Michael Michalko

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. Ask each participant to write a six-word book that describes their perspective on creativity.

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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. Listen carefully and pay close attention.

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WHY ARE SUCCESSFUL INNOVATORS CURIOUS LIKE CATS?

ImagineNation

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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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WAY THE AVERAGE PERSON THINKS AND A CREATIVE GENIUS THINKS

Michael Michalko

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.