Jumpstart Your Creativity by Shawn Doyle and Steven Rowell, Steven Rowell Page B

ingredients necessary to improve creativity, especially in business, which one is missing and therefore you need to improve?
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    What do you need to stay motivated? What do you think your team members need to stay motivated?
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    Review the list describing a creative leader and identify which behaviors you are already doing consistently, and which ones you could improve.
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    Which of the creative incentives will you implement in the next thirty to sixty days?
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    What would happen if you started meeting with your team members individually and simply ask them what they want and need?
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CHAPTER 6

    MODELS FOR CREATIVE THINKING
    Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the
result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s
tools and yesterday’s concepts
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    â€”M ARSHALL M C L UHAN
    MANY people believe in order to be creative you have to start completely from scratch. The reality and one secret to being creative is to use systems and processes that people before you have created to help you think differently about a situation, problem, or challenge. In our work as consultants and trainers, we find that a lot of folks have never heard about some of the famous creativity models that already exist. First, let’s talk about how we define a model (and we are not talking about the ladies on the Price is Right!). A model is simply a system or a process someone has already developed and used as part of the creative thinking process. The purpose of this chapter is to give you some models you can use when you are stifled or trying to come up with creative solutions to a problem, opportunity, or challenge. So try them, you might like them.
    When we work with groups on creative