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Creativity 2011 – Week #41

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Are Introverts Better At Fostering Innovation? - Introverts tend to be responsive rather than reactive, avoiding costly mistakes and giving employees the confidence they need to be creative.

Creativity 2011 – Week #40

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9 Steps For Creative Problem Solving – [Infographic] In business, the process of generating and commercializing a good idea has been honed by creative industries for more than a hundred years. This infographic presents nine major steps toward creative problem solving for new product development.

Creativity 2011 – Week #38

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Getting Started - Whether we plan to create a performance, composition, essay, or mousetrap, we have to launch our project and work on it regularly.

Need A Brilliant Idea? Steal It - When you can borrow and build off of ideas from other entrepreneurs and companies, do it.

Creativity 2011 – Week #37

To Cultivate Innovation, Work Like An Artist - How do we put ourselves in a frame of mind where we can receive inspiration when it comes to us? Think like an artist.

Writer’s Block: How To Break Through – Sometimes to break writer’s block, you need to start at the end and not the beginning.

Creativity 2011 – Week #35

Idea A Day – You never know what idea will pop up here. For instance, encourage more men to visit the dentist by opening topless clinics.

Creativity Brain Games –  Games, questions, and challenges to improve creative thinking.

20 Points – A 20-point checklist developed by Wen Winger to help you solve problems.

Creativity 2011 – Week #34

9 Ways To Keep Innovation Alive In Your Organization - When your company has an existing, proven method of conducting business, it can be a struggle to keep innovation alive.

How Good Stress Breeds Creativity – Those of us in the trenches know a little “good stress” can actually help boost creativity and innovation.

Creativity 2011 – Week #33

Reaching Your Superconscious With Help From Da Vinci – Da Vinci used a technique called streamwriting for harnessing his superconscious, and for examining his own thoughts from a different perspective.

You Have Amazing Powers Of Creativity  - The human brain’s ability to create all-new images is amazing, and this creative power is a normal part of every human brain.

Creativity Boost #1 – Mindtrip

Creativity is one of the key topics we discuss here at THINKing. So, we decided to develop a series of posts that focuses on ways to boost your creativity. Today’s boost: the mindtrip.

Crowdsourcing Your Social Media Strategy

By Harry Hoover

I joined an interesting Tweetchat July 11, moderated by Socialfresh. Each week a company will be selected and anyone who wants to can wade in to help develop a crowdsourced social media strategy using the hastag #socialfresh.  It was fun and there were some good ideas generated, but a lot of the ideas were way off-target. Here’s why:

Creativity 2011 – Week #10

Brainstorming vs. Braincalming - The origination of great, new ideas doesn’t take place in the storm, but in the calm before the storm… or the calm after the storm… or sometimes, even in the eye of the storm itself.

Creativity Isn’t All In your Head - According to a new study,  people are more creative when they’re thinking on someone else’s behalf.