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What Makes You Creative? Other People

From Edward Glassman’s book, Team Creativity At Work II: Creative Problem Solving At Its Best, some interesting thoughts in this article on teams and creativity. So specifically what makes you
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Six Ways to Ruin a Brainstorm, by Paul Sloane

This post on the ways to ruin a brainstorm comes from Paul Sloane, author of The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills. They say brainstorms are old-fashioned and no longer
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What If They Say It’s Not Creative?

In the last post (here), I listed the five most common responses I get when presenting idea – but left out the most difficult client response to answer:  “That’s not
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Developing a Brainstorm Agenda

A brainstorm is a meeting like any other, which means an agenda can be extremely helpful to keep order and focus.  Give yourself a few minutes to think through in
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Levels of Problem Knowledge

In his book The Concept of a Problem, Gene Agre defines a problem as “The gap between the current state of affairs and the desired state of affairs.” In other
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The Little Voice in The Back Of Your Head

In every conversation, there are two voices. The first voice is what you ‘hear’ from the other party. The second voice – one that I find is often louder, more
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Defining the Problem

Ironically, the problem for many people is the word ‘problem.’  Or rather, defining the problem may be the problem.  Quite simply, there’s a lot of definitions. Perhaps the common definition: 
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