Brian Tracy is één van Amerika's beste zakelijke sprekers, een schrijver van bestsellers en een van de beste adviseurs en trainers ter wereld op het gebied van persoonlijke en professionele ontwikkeling.
Meer over Brian TracyCreativity and Problem Solving: The Brian Tracy Success Library
Gebonden Engels 2014 9780814433164Samenvatting
The crucial element separating an exceptional career froma lackluster one is the ability to devise innovative solutions to work challenges. With research showing the direct relationship between ideas and profitability, creative thinking skills are vital to professional advancement.As one of the world’s premiere success experts, Brian Tracy knows that creativity can be developed with practice and a few helpful tools. This concise book reveals 21 proven, practical techniques readers can use to immediately begin generating a stream of productive ideas, including how to:
-Stimulate the three primary triggers to creativity -Inspire a creative mindset in staff through recognition, rewards, and environment -Use methods such as Brainstorming, Zero-Based Thinking, Nominal Group Technique, and Lateral Thinking to solve problems, improve systems, devise new products, and come up with fresh, exciting marketing angles -Ask focused questions to generate elegant solutions -Understand the difference between mechanical and adaptive thinking -Rigorously evaluate new ideas...without shutting down the creative impulse
Containing mind-stimulating exercises and down-to-earthstrategies, this career-changing book helps anyone tap intothe root source of their own intuitive genius.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction 1
1 The Root Sources of Creativity 3
2 Three Triggers to Creativity 7
3 The Mindstorming Method 11
4 Questioning to Stimulate Creativity 16
5 Brainstorming: Unlocking the Power
of Your Team 22
6 Optimism Is the Key 27
7 Develop the Qualities of Genius 32
8 Problem Solving in Seven Steps 37
9 Mind-Stimulating Exercises 42
10 Use Your Three Minds for Thinking 48
11 Practice Two Approaches to Thinking 55
12 Practice Lateral Thinking 59
13 How Your Mind Works 63
14 Systematic Problem Solving Revisited 67
15 Practice Zero-Based Thinking 72
16 Face Reality 76
17 Don't Let Roadblocks Be a Problem 81
18 The Seven Sources of Innovation 85
19 Ten Creative Solutions to Obsolete Products 91
20 The Value-Engineering Principle 96
21 Evaluate Your Ideas 98
Conclusion 102
Index 103
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- ondernemen
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