Michalko, Michael, 1940-
Thinkertoys : a handbook of creative-thinking techniques / Michael Michalko. - 2nd ed. - Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, c2006. - xx, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index. Original title: Thinkertoys : a handbook of business creativity for the '90s.
Original spin -- Mind pumping -- Challenges -- Thinkertoys -- False faces (reversal) -- Slice and dice (attribute listing) -- Cherry split (fractionation) -- Think bubbles (mind mapping) -- Scamper (questions) -- Tug-of-war (force-field analysis) -- Idea box (morphological analysis) -- Idea grid (FCB grid) -- Lotus blossom (diagramming) -- Phoenix (questions) -- The Great Transpacific Airline and Storm Door Company (matrix) -- Future fruit (future scenarios) -- Brutethink (random stimulation) -- Hall of fame (forced connection) -- Circle of opportunity (forced connection) -- Ideatoons (pattern language) -- Clever Trevor (talk to a stranger) -- Chilling out (relaxation) -- Blue roses (intuition) -- The three B's (incubation) -- Rattlesnakes and roses (analogies) -- Stone soup (fantasy questions) -- True and false (Janusian thinking) -- Dreamscape (dreams) -- Da Vinci's technique (drawing) -- Dali's technique (hypnogogic imagery) -- Not Kansas (imagery) -- The shadow (psychosynthesis) -- The book of the dead (hieroglyphics) -- Warming up -- Brainstorming -- Orthodox brainstorming -- Raw brainstorming -- Murder board -- You are not a field of grass.
A guide designed to encourage creative thinking in business offers techniques, hints, and tricks for generating ideas and offers dozens of success stories.
1580087736 9781580087735
2005036213
Creative ability in business.
Creative thinking.
HD53 / .M53 2006
650.01/9
Thinkertoys : a handbook of creative-thinking techniques / Michael Michalko. - 2nd ed. - Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, c2006. - xx, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index. Original title: Thinkertoys : a handbook of business creativity for the '90s.
Original spin -- Mind pumping -- Challenges -- Thinkertoys -- False faces (reversal) -- Slice and dice (attribute listing) -- Cherry split (fractionation) -- Think bubbles (mind mapping) -- Scamper (questions) -- Tug-of-war (force-field analysis) -- Idea box (morphological analysis) -- Idea grid (FCB grid) -- Lotus blossom (diagramming) -- Phoenix (questions) -- The Great Transpacific Airline and Storm Door Company (matrix) -- Future fruit (future scenarios) -- Brutethink (random stimulation) -- Hall of fame (forced connection) -- Circle of opportunity (forced connection) -- Ideatoons (pattern language) -- Clever Trevor (talk to a stranger) -- Chilling out (relaxation) -- Blue roses (intuition) -- The three B's (incubation) -- Rattlesnakes and roses (analogies) -- Stone soup (fantasy questions) -- True and false (Janusian thinking) -- Dreamscape (dreams) -- Da Vinci's technique (drawing) -- Dali's technique (hypnogogic imagery) -- Not Kansas (imagery) -- The shadow (psychosynthesis) -- The book of the dead (hieroglyphics) -- Warming up -- Brainstorming -- Orthodox brainstorming -- Raw brainstorming -- Murder board -- You are not a field of grass.
A guide designed to encourage creative thinking in business offers techniques, hints, and tricks for generating ideas and offers dozens of success stories.
1580087736 9781580087735
2005036213
Creative ability in business.
Creative thinking.
HD53 / .M53 2006
650.01/9