Koutstaal, Wilma,

Innovating minds : a thinking framework for creativity and change / Wilma Koutstaal and Jonathan T. Binks. - 1 online resource : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What are ideas, and where do they come from? -- Seeing the forest and the trees: varying our levels of abstraction -- Staying the course and letting go: varying our degrees of mental control -- Making, finding, and improvising -- Past to future, future to future: innovating together over time -- Evey-renewing goals and keeping our aims in view -- A concepts guide.

A groundbreaking, scientific approach to creative thinking From entrepreneurs to teachers, engineers to artists, almost everyone stands to benefit from becoming more creative. New ways of thinking, making, and imagining have the potential to bring about revolutionary changes to both our personal lives and society as a whole. And yet, the science behind creativity has largely remained a mystery, with few people aware of the ways we can optimize our own creative and innovative ideas. Innovating Minds: Rethinking Creativity To Inspire Change offers a perspective, grounded in science, that allows.

9780199316038 0199316031


Thought and thinking.
Creative thinking.
Divergent thinking.
Adaptability (Psychology)
PSYCHOLOGY--Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE--Cognitive Science.
Adaptability (Psychology)
Creative thinking.
Divergent thinking.
Thought and thinking.


Electronic books.

BF441 / .K5863 2015

153.3/5