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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. Then each participant displays his or her symbol and explains how or why it represents their view. It can be anything…….an

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ENERGIZE YOUR BRAINSTORMING

Michael Michalko

Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their imagination. Ask participants to draw a personal symbol that metaphorically symbolizes their view about creativity. Then each participant displays his or her symbol and explains how or why it represents their view. It can be anything…….an It can be anything…….an

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About Michael Michalko

Michael Michalko

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. Thinkertoys: The Best Creative Problem-Solving Book of all Time. Chuck Frey.

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TOP TEN TIPS FOR CREATIVITY

Michael Michalko

Some of Michael’s creative-thinking techniques that were refined by his government and corporate practice were published in his best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity) , which the Wall Street Journal reported “will change the way you think.” And that’s exactly what you get in Thinkertoys.”

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INNOVATION LEADERSHIP IS PARADOXICAL

ImagineNation

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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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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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

Leaders will need to understand how to apply the principles of ambidextrous leadership – which involves recognising your own bias towards either exploration (eg through a focus on creative thinking) or preservation (eg through a focus on critical thinking). Magazine Great Leadership Speaker.