The Creative Thinking Handbook

Creativity directly impacts results and productivity, yet few of us understand how it happens or how to put it into practice. This book shows you not only how to get things done, but how to do them better and more creatively. The Creative Thinking Handbook provides the correct application for creative thinking and action, by offering clear, practical tools and strategies so that you can develop creative thinking skills and help find brilliant solutions for any professional challenge. Based on research and proven-to-work creative thinking models, Chris Griffiths and Melina Costi present a clear introduction to what creative thinking is, explain why we all need to do it and will help you generate ideas and make better decisions. The Creative Thinking Handbook gets you to think differently by thinking creatively.

More than 82 per cent of companies believe creativity directly impacts results, yet few of us understand how it comes about or how to put it into practice. Some people say that creativity is about thinking outside the box, while others believe it is about being creative inside the box; but what if there is no box? The Creative Thinking Handbook argues that we need to identify and remove the 'box' around our thinking, so we canunlock unlimited streams of creativity for professional and business success. This book offers an integrated system of personalized insights, along with clear, practical tools and strategies - including the tried-and-trusted Solution Finder model. The authors show you how to develop your creative problem-solving skills to make better decisions with an individualized step-by-step strategy. Based on long-term research and testing of the creative thinking process, The Creative Thinking Handbook helps you generate more ideas and find brilliant solutions for any professional challenge.

Critical and Creative Thinking: A Guide for Teachers reveals ways to develop a capacity to think both critically and creatively in practical and productive ways. Explains why critical and creative thinking complement each other with clear examples Provides a practical toolkit of cognitive techniques for generating and evaluating ideas using both creative and critical thinking Enriches the discussion of creative and critical intersections with brief “inter-chapters” based on the thinking habits of Leonardo da Vinci Offers an overview of current trends in critical and creative thinking, with applications across a spectrum of disciplines

Why isn’t everyone creative? Why doesn’t education foster more ingenuity? Why is expertise often the enemy of innovation? Bestselling creativity expert Michael Michalko shows that in every ?eld of endeavor — from business and science to government, the arts, and even day-to-day life — natural creativity is limited by the prejudices of logic and the structures of accepted categories and concepts. Through step-by-step exercises, illustrated strategies, and inspiring real-world examples, he shows readers how to liberate their thinking and literally expand their imaginations by learning to synthesize dissimilar subjects, think paradoxically, and enlist the help of the subconscious mind. He also reveals the attitudes and approaches that diverse geniuses share — and anyone can emulate. Fascinating and fun, Michalko’s strategies facilitate the kind of lightbulb-moment thinking that changes lives — for the better.

Anda bisa bergerak dengan lancar dan dinamis melalui proses pemecahan masalah, terlepas dari apakah Anda bekerja sendiri atau dalam kolaborasi dengan orang lain. Anda juga bisa memilih untuk membaca tahapan atau bagian yang akan paling membantu Anda. Tergantung tantangan Anda, tidak semua tahapan mungkin secara langsung relevan, tetapi membaca keseluruhan isi buku ini akan membantu Anda menghargai keseluruhan proses dan membantu menginspirasi kreativitas Anda ketika Anda bekerja sehari-hari.

The goal of the Handbook of Creativity is to provide the most comprehensive, definitive, and authoritative single-volume review available in the field of creativity. To this end, the book contains 22 chapters covering a wide range of issues and topics in the field of creativity, all written by distinguished leaders in the field. The chapters have been written to be accessible to all educated readers with an interest in creative thinking. Although the authors are leading behavioral scientists, people in all disciplines will find the coverage of creativity divided in the arts and sciences to be of interest. The volume is divided into six parts. Part I, the Introduction, sets out the major themes and reviews the history of thinking about creativity. Subsequent parts deal with methods, origins, self and environment, special topics and conclusions.

A hands-on workbook with exercises that strengthen your creativity. How to train your ability to make connections others don't.

There about 92 percent of companies feel that creativity has a direct impact on results; nevertheless, very few of us understand how creativity emerges or how it can be put into practice. Some people feel that being creative means thinking beyond the box, while others believe that it means being innovative while working within the box. However, what happens if there is no box to think outside of? According to the arguments presented in The Creative Thinking Handbook, we need to recognize and eliminate the "box" that constrains our thinking in order to liberate limitless wells of creativity and achieve success in our careers and businesses. This book provides its readers with an integrated system of personalized insights, together with clear, practical tools and tactics, including the tried-and-true Solution Finder approach. The writers will show you how to strengthen your creative problem-solving skills in order to make better decisions by using an individualized step-by-step technique that they will provide. The Creative Thinking Handbook helps you produce more ideas and find great solutions for every professional difficulty you may face. It is based on extensive research and testing of the creative thinking process over a long period of time.