Thinkertoys : a handbook of creative-thinking techniques
by
Michalko, Michael, 1940-
Title
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Thinkertoys : a handbook of creative-thinking techniques
Author
:
Michalko, Michael, 1940-
ISBN
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9781580087735
Personal Author
:
Michalko, Michael, 1940-
Edition
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2nd ed.
Publication Information
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Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, ©2006.
Physical Description
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xx, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note
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Includes index.
Original title: Thinkertoys : a handbook of business creativity for the '90s.
Contents
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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.
Abstract
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A guide designed to encourage creative thinking in business offers techniques, hints, and tricks for generating ideas and offers dozens of success stories.
Subject Term
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Creative ability in business.
Creative thinking.
Pensée créatrice.
Créativité dans les affaires.
Créativité.
Gestion.
Creative ability in business. (OCoLC)fst00882438
Creative thinking. (OCoLC)fst00882470
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