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Creative Problem Solving
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3 Levels of Your
Creativity
Ask Searching Questions
Creativity
requires an inquisitive mind. Unless you ask lots of
"Why?" and "What If"? questions, you won't generate creative
insights.
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Difference!
"To avoid this most common of creative errors, be sure to peek under all
carpets, including your own. Don't take anything for granted. Especially
success. Try
looking at the world through more inquisitive eyes; try getting ideas in
motion; try asking the all-important: "Why?"
See what happens!" says Alexander Hiam.3
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Making Conscious
Assumptions
Making conscious assumptions is a key tool of a
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creative
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thinker. "No great
discovery is made without a bold guess,"
said Isaac Newton.
Assumptive thinking is not the same as guessing though.
Making an assumption is more like using a tentative step...
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Managing Assumptions
Managing assumptions is very important for
your success.
Yin Strategies
Managing assumptions include being able to
empathize, to understand
perceptions and
expectations, to sense the
unconscious constraints or rules that you or
others impose on situations, problems,
judgments, decisions, individuals,
teams, and organizations.
Yang Strategies
To be able
to manage assumptions also encompasses
challenging assumptions, being
imaginative and making
conscious
assumptions as tentative hypotheses to explore various possibilities,
and inviting others to explore these conscious assumptions, generate and
cross-pollinate ideas. In
entrepreneurial simulation games,
such as
INNOBALL,
anticipation of possible challenges ahead is a form of conscious
assumptions.
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