Creative Thinking during Changing Times

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Creative Thinking during Changing Times

• And one ought to consider that there is nothing
  more difficult to pull off, more chancy to
  succeed in, or more dangerous to manage, than the
  introduction of a new order of things.

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Demystifying the Creative Process

• A mathematician said creativity is A
  composer said creativity is...
• Some theorists have said creativity is...
• Creativity Novelty Social Feasibility

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Creativity Some notes on the creative process

• Van Oechs Explorer, Artist, Judge Warrior, as
  roles in the process
• Guilfords Switchback Thinking by dynamically
  Converging Diverging
• Walliss Stages of the creativity process
• The 5-S route to greater creativity
• Homework Tell us your CPS Story

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Creativity The goal of the process is Aha!
Eureka!
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Creativity Blocks and Blockbusting

• Joes Resistances to Change as Blocks
• What could some Cultural and Environmental Blocks
  be?.
• What could some Perceptual Blocks be?...

• The real voyage of discovery consists not in
  seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

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Creativity Blocks and Blockbusting

• Lets try out your creative vision
• Beyond Heaven Hell
• You choose Whitch?
• Its all in a Word

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Creativity Blocks and Blockbusting

• The Minute Man
• The Mona Lisa Complex
• Stewing vs. Doing
• Assaulting the Mountain

• The Void
• Walking the Plank
• Intrinsic Motivation
• The Dark Sea, The Ship of Self, The Lighthouse

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Creativity Blocks and Blockbusting

• Heres a summary of the Conceptual Blocks that
  Inhibit Creative Problem Solving...

• ...Constancy
• ...Commitment
• ...Compression
• ...Complacency
• From your experience?

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Creativity Blocks and Blockbusting

• It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing,
  though so necessary beforehand and so useful
  afterwards.

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Creativity Blocks and Blockbusting

• The IX test for creative thinking
• Idea Generation Withholding Judgement by
  Brainstorming.
• Having a Creative Whack Attack by Roger van Oech.

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Creative Thinking during Changing Times

• Todays Feedback?
• Moving on to Teambuilding and Leadership...Heres
  the Homework
• What are you going to Stop, Continue, Start
  between now and next time?