The Creative Thinker's Toolkit

Professor Gerard Puccio

ISBN 10: 1629970263 ISBN 13: 9781629970264

Publisher: The Great Courses The Teaching Company, 2014

Synopsis

24 Lectures 1 The Creative Person—Practice and Passion 2 Lateral Thinking Is a Survival Skill 3 Creative Styles—Adaptors and Innovators 4 Combining Opposites—Diverge, Then Converge 5 Principles for Unleashing Your Imagination 6 Principles for Converging on the Best Ideas 7 Stages of the Creative Process—and You 8 Clarifying the Challenge 9 Clarify Even More—Webbing and Storyboarding 10 Classic Brainstorming and Brainwriting 11 Tools for Enhanced Brainstorming 12 Borrowing and Modifying Ideas 13 Systematic Tools to Generate New Ideas 14 Developing Ideas—Toward Great Solutions 15 Prototypes—How Designers Test Ideas 16 Evaluating Creative Solutions and Making Decisions 17 Giving Ideas Legs—Implementation Planning 18 Persuasion and the Selling of New Ideas 19 Tools for Bringing It All Together 20 Lifting the Emotional Lid on Creativity 21 The Environment—Physical and Psychological 22 Creative Leadership—Regardless of Title 23 Overcoming Blocks and Barriers 24 Living a Creative Life

Edition details

• Publisher: The Great Courses The Teaching Company
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1629970263
• ISBN 13: 9781629970264
• Binding: Unknown Binding