Thinkertoys : a handbook of creative-thinking techniques
Michalko, Michael, 1940-2006
Book
This book reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From the linear to the intuitive, this comprehensive handbook details ingenious creative-thinking techniques for approaching problems in unconventional ways. Through fun and thought-provoking exercises, youll learn how to create original ideas that will improve your personal life and your business life. Michalkos techniques show you how to look at the same information as everyone else and see something different. With hundreds of hints, tricks, tips, tales, and puzzles, this book will open your mind to a world of innovative solutions to everyday and not-so-everyday problems.
Main title:
Thinkertoys : a handbook of creative-thinking techniques / Michael Michalko.
Author:
Michalko, Michael, 1940-, author
Edition:
Second edition.
Imprint:
Berkeley, California : Ten Speed Press, 2006.©2006
Collation:
xx, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.Original title: Thinkertoys : a handbook of business creativity for the '90s.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9781580087735 (pbk)9781580087735 (paperback)
Dewey class:
650.019
LC class:
HD53
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
641747
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southbank Library | -Business and IT | BUSIN 650.019 MICH | On loan - Due: 06 Jul 2026 |