The Creative Thinking Plan: How to generate ideas and solve problems in your wor

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A guide to promote positive habits of mind, with practical exercises, insights and inspiring examples. Covering both personal and professional life, it enables the reader to to achieve harmony, balance and success by fostering a productive and innovative mind-set to liberate your creativity. *Also appeared in October Buyer's Notes*

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The processes involved in creative thought seem mysterious and can often elude us. Yet the ability to think creatively and productively is vital to our personal and professional lives.Creativity is a major economic force in the 21st century and an essential part of everyday life. Being smart in today's world means we have to be flexible to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. Demands upon us can change daily, our personal circumstances alter and the markets within which we operate shift. To achieve harmony, balance and success through all this constant change we need to think creatively. But how do we do this? How do we know which skills and habits will directly increase and impact on our ability to think creatively? And how can we develop and nurture them? In this comprehensive full-colour guide the authors help us to advance our skills to meet the challenges we face in our daily lives in an innovative and creative way. Learn how you can strengthen and develop the attitudes that enable creativity, break those that stifle innovation and discover the techniques you need to draw out your positive and creative side. Through practical exercises and inspiring examples you'll instil a positive mind-set that will make innovative, productive and creative thinking a way of life. Take on new challenges and projects with confidence and find out how to create a creative and stimulating environment within your workplace. This book is for anyone who wants to tap into their creativity and develop a mind-set where good ideas flow more freely in all circumstances, reaping the benefits that creative and innovative thought can offer.

Notes

A guide to promote positive habits of mind, with practical exercises, insights and inspiring examples. Covering both personal and professional life, it enables the reader to to achieve harmony, balance and success by fostering a productive and innovative mind-set to liberate your creativity.

Table of Contents

First draft of a reworded contents list   Part 1 How to develop the innovation habit Chapter 1: Develop your habits of mind Chapter 2: Get the big picture Chapter 3: Profit from alternative thinking styles Chapter 4: How to surf your inner net   Part 2 How to create the ideal surroundings to innovate Chapter 5: Creating the spark with others Chapter 6: Creating ideas in practice Chapter 7: How to create an innovative work environment Chapter 8: How to make creative thinking a way of life

Review

"This creativity master class is a treat for any of us who want to open our minds." Octavius Black, The Mind Gym "A compelling guide to developing creative habits of mind. The book draws on a rich variety of thinking about Creativity and shows how we can apply it to the benefit both of our work and our personal lives." David Puttnam ...Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas have a well-established track record as experts in learning and have applied this understanding to creativity... The concise and clear text provides a practical and common-sense view of creativity... This book tantalizes us with the realisation that learning and creativity are close, and possibly inseparable, companions...' "Times Educational Supplement" "well presented, readable and takes us behond conventional thinking in order to achieve more in our personal and professional lives."- Professional Manager" "The book gives you easy-to-follow guidelines to access your creativity... This is a compelling book, which draws on a wide variety of thinking about creativity." - "Business Executive"

Promotional

With practical exercises, insights and inspiring examples, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas clearly demonstrate how to break away from old habits, free up your mind and foster a productive and innovative mind-set to liberate your creativity. We need to be smart, creative and flexible according to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. As those circumstances shift, so we need to respond in different ways. A creative, productive and innovative mind-set is vital to achieving harmony, balance and success in our personal and professional lives. In this comprehensive, clear and structured plan Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas show us how we can develop the skills needed to respond to the demands of the modern world in a creative, innovative and imaginative way.

Long Description

The processes involved in creative thought seem mysterious and can often elude us. Yet the ability to think creatively and productively is vital to our personal and professional lives.Creativity is a major economic force in the 21st century and an essential part of everyday life. Being smart in today's world means we have to be flexible to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. Demands upon us can change daily, our personal circumstances alter and the markets within which we operate shift. To achieve harmony, balance and success through all this constant change we need to think creatively. But how do we do this? How do we know which skills and habits will directly increase and impact on our ability to think creatively? And how can we develop and nurture them? In this comprehensive full-colour guide the authors help us to advance our skills to meet the challenges we face in our daily lives in an innovative and creative way. Learn how you can strengthen and develop the attitudes that enable creativity, break those that stifle innovation and discover the techniques you need to draw out your positive and creative side. Through practical exercises and inspiring examples you'll instil a positive mind-set that will make innovative, productive and creative thinking a way of life. Take on new challenges and projects with confidence and find out how to create a creative and stimulating environment within your workplace. This book is for anyone who wants to tap into their creativity and develop a mind-set where good ideas flow more freely in all circumstances, reaping the benefits that creative and innovative thought can offer.

Review Text

"This creativity master class is a treat for any of us who want to open our minds." Octavius Black, The Mind Gym "A compelling guide to developing creative habits of mind. The book draws on a rich variety of thinking about Creativity and shows how we can apply it to the benefit both of our work and our personal lives." David Puttnam '...Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas have a well-established track record as experts in learning and have applied this understanding to creativity... The concise and clear text provides a practical and common-sense view of creativity... This book tantalizes us with the realisation that learning and creativity are close, and possibly inseparable, companions...' Times Educational Supplement "well presented, readable and takes us behond conventional thinking in order to achieve more in our personal and professional lives."- Professional Manager "The book gives you easy-to-follow guidelines to access your creativity... This is a compelling book, which draws on a wide variety of thinking about creativity." - Business Executive

Review Quote

"This creativity master class is a treat for any of us who want to open our minds." Octavius Black, The Mind Gym "A compelling guide to developing creative habits of mind. The book draws on a rich variety of thinking about Creativity and shows how we can apply it to the benefit both of our work and our personal lives."

Promotional "Headline"

"This creativity master class is a treat for any of us who want to open our minds." Octavius Black, The Mind Gym "A compelling guide to developing creative habits of mind. The book draws on a rich variety of thinking about Creativity and shows how we can apply it to the benefit both of our work and our personal lives." David Puttnam '...Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas have a well-established track record as experts in learning and have applied this understanding to creativity... The concise and clear text provides a practical and common-sense view of creativity... This book tantalizes us with the realisation that learning and creativity are close, and possibly inseparable, companions...' Times Educational Supplement

Feature

- Develop positive habits of mind - Learn to see the bigger picture - Access and develop you own inspiration - Discover how to think creatively and productively even under pressure - Break bad habits that are holding you back - Recognise contexts that support creative thought and learn to exploit them - Make innovative, productive and creative thought a way of life

Description for Sales People

With practical exercises, insights and inspiring examples, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas clearly demonstrate how to break away from old habits, free up your mind and foster a productive and innovative mind-set to liberate your creativity. We need to be smart, creative and flexible according to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. As those circumstances shift, so we need to respond in different ways. A creative, productive and innovative mind-set is vital to achieving harmony, balance and success in our personal and professional lives. In this comprehensive, clear and structured plan Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas show us how we can develop the skills needed to respond to the demands of the modern world in a creative, innovative and imaginative way.

Details ISBN1406614254 Author Guy Claxton Pages 232 Publisher Pearson Education Limited Year 2007 ISBN-10 1406614254 ISBN-13 9781406614251 Format Paperback Publication Date 2007-11-15 Imprint BBC Active Place of Publication Harlow Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 153.35 Media Book Edition 1 Subtitle How to generate ideas and solve problems in your work and life Short Title The Creative Thinking Plan DOI 10.1604/9781406614251 UK Release Date 2007-11-15 AU Release Date 2007-11-15 NZ Release Date 2007-11-15 Replaces 9780563487647 Audience General We've got this

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