Innovating minds : a thinking framework for creativity and change / Wilma Koutstaal and Jonathan T. Binks.

By: Koutstaal, Wilma [author.]Contributor(s): Binks, Jonathan T [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199316038; 0199316031Subject(s): Thought and thinking | Creative thinking | Divergent thinking | Adaptability (Psychology) | PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology | SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science | Adaptability (Psychology) | Creative thinking | Divergent thinking | Thought and thinkingGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Innovating Minds: Rethinking Creativity to Inspire Change.DDC classification: 153.3/5 LOC classification: BF441 | .K5863 2015Online resources: Ebook Library | EBSCOhost | MyiLibrary | ProQuest Ebook Central
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 3, 2015).

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.

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