"Creativity For Uncreative People: How To Be More Creative Than You Thought You Could Be" This amazing book will carry you into harvesting creativity and creative problem solving at work. Learn to capture creative thinking and solving problems creatively at work. Team excellence and success depend on it. Everyone needs to achieve high quality solutions to problems at work. Success depend on it. Yet relatively few people know the creative thinking procedures that lead to the highest-level solutions. These procedures focus people on the real issues within a problem and on its quality solution, instead of on the preconceived ideas and notions with which we all limit ourselves. In this book, you will learn three types of procedures to help solve problems creatively. This includes: - procedures to shift paradigms and produce unexpected new ideas - procedures to change the climate so new ideas flourish - procedures to stop pigeonholing people, including yourself, and stifling creative thinking. Here's what else you will find. You will learn how to conduct problem-solving targeted creative thinking meetings. You will learn special creative thinking procedures for Special Creative Teams. You will discover procedures to manage and motivate people to help creative thinking at work. You will experience some fun and games that illuminate your habits that spoil creative thinking, and the procedures to avoid them. You will find procedures to help the submission of new ideas and proposals. And, if you are a leader, you will learn procedures to adjust your leadership style to help creative thinking at work. WELL WORTH OWNING
ABOUT THE AUTHOR EDWARD GLASSMAN, Ph.D., former president of The Creativity College(R), a division of Leadership Consulting Services, Inc. and Professor Emeritus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (retired), where he founded & headed The Program For Team Effectiveness And Creativity. Guggenheim Fellow and Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1968-69) and a Visiting Fellow at The Center For Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina (1986). Professor Glassman's biography appeared in "Who's Who In America" and "Who's Who in the World." He was an Educational Consultant for colleges and universities in North Carolina, California, Florida, Virginia, New York, and Canada. Professor Glassman's columns appeared in local newspapers on such topics as: "Business Creativity" and "Creativity at Work." His books on creativity and team excellence include: - "Creativity Triggers Are For Everyone: How To Use Your Inventiveness to Brighten Your Life" (2011). - "Creativity Triggers For College People: A Frolicking Guide To Light Up Your Life" (2011). - "R&D Creativity & Innovation Handbook: A Practical Guide To Improve Creative Thinking and Innovation At Work (2011). - "Team Creativity At Work-I, You Do Want To Be More Successful Than Your Competition, Don't You?" (2010). - "Team Creativity At Work-II. Brainstorming Isn't Creative Enough Anymore." (2010). - "Creativity Handbook: A Practical Guide to Paradigm Shifts and Creative Thinking at Work," (1996) A 250 page manual used in his creativity workshops & meetings. - "The Creativity Factor: Unlocking the Potential of Your Team," (1991) Pfeiffer & Company. - "For Presidents Only: Unlocking The Creative Potential Of Your Management Team." (1990) The Presidents Association of The American Management Association, NY. He received his Ph.D. in 1955 from the Biology Department, the Johns Hopkins University. As a Professor in the University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill, NC, from 1960 to 1989, he published over 100 research articles on biochemistry, genetics, neuroscience, alcohol, teaching, and creativity. His experiences in colleges and universities as researcher, professor, educational & creativity consultant, his workshops, newspaper and online columns and books provide the expertise to write this BOOK.
