What a Great Idea! 2.0: Unlocking Your Creativity in Business and in Life - Softcover

Thompson, Chic; Power, Mary; Thompson, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0927391015 ISBN 13: 9780927391016

Publisher: Creative Management Group, 2016

Synopsis

What a Great Idea! has sold more than 250,000 copies and is translated into five languages—and now this imaginative guide to thinking creatively is back, in a new and improved 2.0 version. Author Chic Thompson knows that everyone wants to be more creative—and he knows how to make it possible. That’s why the Harvard Business School released a case study on his career. Yoshiro NakaMatsu, the inventor of the CD, Floppy Disk and digital watch called Chic Thompson "a creative genius." Based on his entrepreneurial successes and his work at Disney and W.L. Gore & Associates, Thompson has had unparalleled success teaching readers how to harness their ingenuity to generate new product ideas and overcome the bureaucratic language that stifles innovation. This fully illustrated, thoroughly updated paperback edition features even more brain-stimulating suggestions, exercises, action sheets and ideas for encouraging creativity at work, at home, and much more.

About this title

About the Author:

Chic Thompson is the president of Creative Management Group, a Fellow at the University of Virginia's Darden Business School and adjunct faculty at The YPO University (Young Presidents Organization), the Brookings Institution and the Federal Executive Institute. In 2001, Harvard Business School released a case study on the speaking career of Chic Thompson entitled What a Great Idea! Chic received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Delaware and his Masters in Education from the University of Virginia. He then worked in new product development and marketing for W.L. Gore and Associates (Gore-Tex), Johnson & Johnson and Walt Disney. Chic has given over 3500 presentations and has teamed up with talent ranging from Tony Robbins and Stephen Covey to Cirque du Soleil and Second City Improv.

Review:

Chic has crafted a creative process to move almost anything from what is to what could be. --Rick Goings, Chairman and CEO, Tupperware Brands

Chic is a breeding ground for new ideas! --Charles Prather, Ph.D. Former Director, DuPont Center for Innovation

Chic has a knack for getting people to see ideas that have been staring them in the face. --Robert J. Rotella, Ph.D., Sports Psychologist Author, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

About this edition

• Publisher: Creative Management Group
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0927391015
• ISBN 13: 9780927391016
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 248