A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques
Contents
Preface to the New Edition xi
The Barking Cat (Introduction) xvii
initiation 1
Chapter One: Original Spin 3
Chapter Two: Mind Pumping 11
Chapter Three: Challenges 22
Chapter Four: Thinkertoys 35
Part One: Linear Thinkertoys 41
Group A
Chapter Five: False Faces (reversal) 43
Chapter Six: Slice and Dice (attribute
listing) 53
Chapter Seven: Cherry Split (fractionation)
60
Chapter Eight: Think Bubbles (mind mapping)
66
Chapter Nine: SCAMPER (questions) 72
Group B
Chapter Ten: Tug-of-War (force-field
analysis) 111
Chapter Eleven: Idea Box (morphological
analysis) 117
Chapter Twelve: Idea Grid (FCB grid)
126
Chapter Thirteen: Lotus Blossom
(diagramming) 132
Chapter Fourteen: Phoenix (questions)
137
Chapter Fifteen: The great Transpacific Airline and Storm Door
Company (matrix) 144
Chapter Sixteen: Future Fruit (future
scenarios) 150
Group C
Chapter Seventeen: Brutethink (random
stimulation) 157
Chapter Eighteen: Hall of Fame (forced
connection) 170
Chapter Nineteen: Circle of Opportunity (forced
connection) 179
Chapter Twenty: Ideatoons (pattern
language) 184
Chapter Twenty-One: Clever Trevor (talk to a
stranger) 190
Part Two: Intuitive Thinkertoys 199
Chapter Twenty-Two: Chilling Out
(relaxation) 203
Chapter Twenty-Three: Blue Roses
(intuition) 210
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Three B’s
(incubation) 218
Chapter Twenty-Five: rattlesnakes and Roses
(analogies) 223
Chapter Twenty-Six: Stone Soup (fantasy
questions) 239
Chapter Twenty-Seven: True and False (janusian
thinking) 248
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Dreamscape (dreams)
256
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Da Vinci’s Technique
(drawing) 261
Chapter Thirty: Dali’s Technique (hypnogogic imagery)
268
Chapter Thirty-One: Not Kansas (imagery)
273
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Shadow (psychosynthesis)
281
Chapter Thirty-Three: The Book of the Dead
(hieroglyphics) 287
Part Three: The Spirit of Koinonia 293
Chapter Thirty-Four: Warming Up 299
Chapter Thirty-Five: Brainstorming 311
Chapter Thirty-Six: Orthodox Brainstorming
323
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Raw Creativity 341
Part Four: Endtoys 363
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Murder Board 365
Chapter Thirty-Nine: You Are Not a Field of Grass
374
Index 381
About the Author 395
Michael Michalko is one of the most highly acclaimed creativity experts in the world. As an officer in the U.S. Army, he organized a team of NATO intelligence specialists and international academics in Frankfurt, Germany, to research, collect, and categorize all known inventive-thinking methods. His team applied these methods to various NATO military, political, and economic problems and produced a variety of breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to new and old problems. After leaving military service, he was contracted by the CIA to facilitate think tanks using his creative-thinking techniques. He specializes in providing creativity workshops, seminars, and think tanks for clients who range from individuals to Fortune 500 companies.
“Shows you how to expand your imagination.” --Newsweek
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