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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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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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TOP TEN TIPS FOR CREATIVITY

Michael Michalko

You might learn more than people, or the objects you’re studying, superficially reveal.” Dean Simonton professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis “Know your stuff: creativity requires expertise; but don’t know it too well: overspecialisation puts blinders on. 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.