Thinkertoys
Subtitle: a handbook of creative-thinking techniques
By: Michael Michalko.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781580087735
Subjects: Creative ability in business; Creative thinking
Description: A guide designed to encourage creative thinking in business offers techniques, hints, and tricks for generating ideas and offers dozens of success stories.
Notes: Includes index.
Original title: Thinkertoys : a handbook of business creativity for the '90s.
Table of contents: title: Original spin; title: Mind pumping; title: Challenges; title: Thinkertoys; title: False faces (reversal); title: Slice and dice (attribute listing); title: Cherry split (fractionation); title: Think bubbles (mind mapping); title: Scamper (questions); title: Tug-of-war (force-field analysis); title: Idea box (morphological analysis); title: Idea grid (FCB grid); title: Lotus blossom (diagramming); title: Phoenix (questions); title: The Great Transpacific Airline and Storm Door Company (matrix); title: Future fruit (future scenarios); title: Brutethink (random stimulation); title: Hall of fame (forced connection); title: Circle of opportunity (forced connection); title: Ideatoons (pattern language); title: Clever trevor (talk to a stranger); title: Chilling out (relaxation); title: Blue roses (intuition); title: The three B's (incubation); title: Rattlesnakes and roses (analogies); title: Stone soup (fantasy questions); title: True and false (Janusian thinking); title: Dreamscape (dreams); title: Da Vinci's technique (drawing); title: Dali's technique (hypnogogic imagery); title: Not Kansas (imagery); title: The shadow (psychosynthesis); title: The book of the dead (hieroglyphics); title: Warming up; title: Brainstorming; title: Orthodox brainstorming; title: Raw brainstorming; title: Murder board; title: You are not a field of grass.