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Thinkertoys

A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques

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 Rethink the Way You Think

In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas?
In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity expert Michael Michalko 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, you’ll learn how to create original ideas that will improve your personal life and your business life. Michalko’s 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, Thinkertoys will open your mind to a world of innovative solutions to everyday and not-so-everyday problems.

Includes a PDF of Supplemental Graphics, Exercises, and Illustrations Business Development & Entrepreneurship Career Success Creativity Decision-Making & Problem Solving Entrepreneurship Management Management & Leadership Personal Development Business Career Physical Exercise Leadership

Critic reviews

“Shows you how to expand your imagination.” --Newsweek

“A special find. Period.” --Executive Edge

“A must-have book in any business setting.” --Women in Business
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Very thought provoking book because it tells you how.
Goes through processes to generate ideas in a structured reproducible way. I really enjoyed the technique and then real world applications.

Creative thinking manual

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Need to spend more time working through the techniques as there is a lot to think about.

Great idea generation techniques

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yes this book may help people be more creative but from almost the very opening, it has a thing like, 'your business attitude determines your creativity' (though I may be paraphrasing) and the way it uses 'your' feels like the reader doesn't have the space to think and must either accept his point of view or stop every five munites to decode. (well that's my understanding anyway)

in the end, I think there are much better books to use to develop your creativity.

this book feels decisive to me.

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Audiobook with 60 pages of pdf doesn’t make sense. I cannot follow the plot while driving. Also img are not titled nor numbered so it is impossible to know which img is described at the moment. Story is poor, waste of time.

I didnt like the story and audio format

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