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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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What's Included in a Free the Genie for Teams Engagement

Idea Champions

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. Lots of spaghetti is thrown against the wall, but the meal is rarely forthcoming.

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Working together to shape innovation for meaningful change

Paul Hobcraft

For this ability to tap into the “dynamics of innovation,” most of any future success in the modern world demands a proactive approach through constant skill development and creative thinking. Develop the ability to present research findings in a clear, concise, and actionable manner.

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Are you starving for powerful female leaders in your strategy planning workshop?

BrainZooming

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Why were these report outs different than others we’d done previously?

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FREE THE GENIE for TEAMS FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

Idea Champions

Because we want to increase the odds of people actively participating in the creative thinking process. Yes, as long as the replacement team member has read the Insight & Ideation Report from session #1 and has a clear understanding of what has preceded session #2. Can we still use Free the Genie? Why only four?

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HUMAN CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING WITH GENERATIVE AI

ImagineNation

We can be proactive by asking these two generative questions: What if the true potential of AI lies in embracing its ability to augment human creativity and aid innovation, especially in enhancing creative problem solving, at all levels of civil society, instead of avoiding it?

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What shapes your thinking?

Jeffrey Phillips

There's a famous saying, attributed to Marshall McLuhan, who is reported to have said - we shape our tools, and then our tools shape us. I think what was attributed to McLuhan is true - we shape our tools, and then they shape us. Supposedly Churchill said something similar, only about buildings.