Creativity Secrets: HOW TO BE CREATIVE. How To Get Inspired and Be More Creative: The Art, Science, and Practice of Creativty

Creativity

Coming up with different and valuable ideas

Super-Creative? It's YOU!

Creativity is the juxtaposition of ideas which were previously thought to be unrelated.' It is your ability to combine ideas in a unique way or to make useful associations among ideas.

Creativity and
Super-Creativity

Creativity is coming up with ideas or combining ideas.

Super-Creativity is a partner dance of conscious, subconscious and divine creativities

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6 Innovation Practice Tips by IDEO

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." ~ Albert Einstein

3Bs of Strategic Creativity

Think both holistically and → creatively. Use the 3-step brainstilling-brainstorming-brainstilling (3B) process:
- silence your mind to see the big picture and discover → problems and/or → opportunities;
- brainstorm strategic ideas and/or → creative solutions;
- still your brain to see the new big picture and assess the impact of your new ideas... More

Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success

Be different. Think different. "Better be a pirate than to join the navy."... More

5 Rules of Creative Thinking

By William N. Yeomans

Don't let assumptions stifle your capacity. Throw every one of them... More

Innovation vs. Creativity

Creativity – coming up with ideas
Innovation – bringing ideas to life

6 Barriers To Creative Thinking and Innovation

Negative Attitude: The tendency to focus on the negative aspects of problems and expend energy on worry... More

10 Ways To Murder Creativity

Ask for a 200-page document to justify every new idea... More

Twelve Major Causes of Failure in Leadership

Lack of creative thinking in setting goals and creating plans... More

How To Lead Creative People

By: Max DePree

Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations... More

Creative Leadership DOs and DON'Ts

Don't direct; Inspire... More

Creating a Sustainable Culture of Innovation

An 8-Step Process

Tend New Growth: Establish well-placed “innovation spaces” to encourage creative thinking, collaboration, and cross-functional brainstorming.

Entrepreneurial Creativity

Your entrepreneurial creativity is a synergistic combination of your four capabilities:

Toyota's 10 Management Principles

Think "outside the box," or beyond common sense and standard rules..

How To Achieve High Visibility In Your Target Market

10 Strategic Tips

By: Glenn Ebersole

Strategic Tip #4: DO commit to and be an idea generator. Highly visible people are seen as resources and people who can really help move a business, an organization and/or ideas forward.

Creativity Defined

A "new" idea is a combination of old elements. Being able to devise new combinations depend on your ability to discern relationships between seemingly disparate items.⁸

"There is virtually no problem you cannot solve, no goal you cannot achieve, no obstacle you cannot overcome if you know how to apply the creative powers of your mind, like a laser beam, to cut through every difficulty in your life and your work."⁶

You Are Creative!

Creativity is not about inventing something totally new, it is about making new – synergistic! – connections. You don't have to be a special kind of person to be creative – everyone can do it. It's not about who you are, it's about what you do. You just need to start looking for multiple solutions rather than settling for just one, and give yourself permission to be playful and inquisitive, flexible and versatile.

Psychologists call the activities associated with idea generation "loose associative thinking" processes. Associative thinking is not linear or sequential. It is jumpy. To invent new connections, the maintenance of uncertainty is important for a time. "Closure is a killer; it strangles associative thinking, in favor of arriving at "an answer". Early in the process, leveraging uncertainty, riding it, and valuing it are critical to developing robust ideas."⁴

An Important Pre-Condition

Although creative people come from varied backgrounds, they all seem to have one thing in common – they love what they are doing.

Love What You Are Doing

We were born to do not what we are forced to do, but what we love to do. If you love what you do, you release your diving creativity. Continuous creative activity and the joy of achievement is a great source of happiness... More

Practice Every Day

How often should you practice if you wish to win the World Tennis Cup: once a month? once a week? every day?

How often should you exercise your right brain's creative muscles if you wish to master your creative skills: once a month? once a week? every day?

Take a Different View

It was by taking a different view of a traditional business that major innovations were achieved.

To find a better creative solution to thecurrent practice, force yourself to reframe the problem, to break down its components and assemble them in a different way... More

Ask Searching Questions

Creativity requires an inquisitive mind. Unless you ask lots of "Why?" and "What If"? questions, you won't generate creative insights. "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!"⁷

Inspirational Leadership: 10 Roles

Inspirational leaders create an inspiring culture within their organization. They supply a shared vision and inspire people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible. They are able to articulate a shared vision in a way that inspires others to act. They encourage entrepreneurial creativity and experimentation.

Be the Best Possible

10 Tips by Ten3 NZ Ltd.

Continuous creativity. Every member of an organisation can be creative. The key towards discovering and maximising your creativity is to be a member of an organisation that offers a work environment that encourages individual and team creativity. These organisations understand that innovation and creativity are the very source of excellence and quality when applied to customer service, delivery, distribution, sales and marketing and employee productivity, etc... More

Creativity Quotes

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." – Franklin Roosevelt... More

Inspirational Business Plan: Successful Innovation