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How To Be More Creative A Handbook For Alchemists StopSucking

Persuasive Powerhouse

For now, I'm going to say creativity. That's not perfect, but creativity separates us from all but dolphins, chimpanzees, Lassie, and the loosely-based-on-reality velociraptors in Jurassic Park. It's hard to say exactly what separates us from the animals.

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Create The Future And The Innovation Handbook

Eric Jacobson

Flip the book over, and you have Gutsche’s updated and expanded, bestselling, Exploiting Chaos , book now called, The Innovation Handbook , featuring memorable real-world case studies and plenty of thought-provoking questions to inspire next steps for innovation. It's the ideal guide to turn your big idea into a reality.

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21 Ways to Kill Your Creativity

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Michalko, author of business classics that include Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius (2001), Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques, 2nd Edition (2006), and Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work (2011).

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Hierarchies and Creative Deviance

LDRLB

It’s not different in creativity. In a fast moving world, creativity requires an open-mindedness and willingness to examine new ideas. However, this type of structure often inhibits organization creativity (Williams & Yang, 1999). Without such deviance, creativity has a difficult time surviving in the organization.

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Goodbye Handbook, Hello Facebook: Onboarding in the Age of Millennials

Great Leadership By Dan

Acclimating new millennial employees to company culture requires creative thinking and modern tactics. Onboarding today looks nothing like onboarding of ten or twenty years ago. Read Beth Miller’s new guest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out how.

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Hierarchies and Creative Deviance

LDRLB

It’s not different in creativity. In a fast moving world, creativity requires an open-mindedness and willingness to examine new ideas. However, this type of structure often inhibits organization creativity (Williams & Yang, 1999). Without such deviance, creativity has a difficult time surviving in the organization.

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A Handbook For Making Change

Eric Jacobson

Most important, Pottruck teaches readers how to learn to anticipate and to analyze logically and carefully; think creatively and embrace possibilities; learn what to prioritize, where to concentrate energy, and how to move forward while bringing others along with you. Expansion into a new territory. Downsizing.