A Kick In The Seat Of The Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative
Roger von Oech
Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, NY (1986)
When was the last time you had a creative idea? This morning? Last month? Last year? Sometimes you need A KICK IN THE SEAT OF THE PANTS to get your thinking going. This book does just that by taking you on a guided tour through the four roles of the creative process.
A Whack On The Side Of The Head: How to Unlock Your Mind For Innovation
Roger von Oech, Ph.D.
Warner Books, Inc., New York, NY (1983)
This book zeros in on the ten mental locks that prevent you from being as innovative as you can be-and shows you what you can do to open them. combining wisdom, tomfoolery, paradox, philosophy, and scientific fact through stories, mental exercises, and case histories.
Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain
Betty Edwards
Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (1989)
This book is for people at all levels of skill who want to learn to draw. It can teach you to draw even though you feel you have little talent. If you enjoy drawing but have not been able to get much beyond a childlike level, it will show you how to gain the skill you have always wanted. If you are already drawing as a professional artist or as an artist-in-training, it will give you greater confidence in your ability and will deepen your artistic perceptions.
Expanding Leadership Impact
A Practical Guide To Managing People And Processes
Richard Chang Associates, Inc., Irvine, CA (1994)
Rapid changes in technology and organizational structures and systems have made many of the traditional elements of leadership obsolete. Here are practical perspectives on how to meet the new challenge whether you are leading a project group, a department, division, or an organization. Use it as your balancing pole as you walk the tightrope in managing both the means and the ends!
Getting Your Message Across
Kurt Hanks & Gerreld Pulsipher
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1991)
You will find this book useful if you are: a salesperson making a call; a teacher giving a lesson; an executive preparing for a speech; a professor presenting a lecture; a parent teaching a child; or anyone else who wants to convey information.
Idea Power: Techniques And Resources To Unleash The Creativity In Your Organization
Arthur B. VanGundy
American Management Association, New York, NY (1992)
IDEA POWER will show you how to explore issues involved in organizational innovation; you'll learn to facilitate problem-solving groups with a full chapter of creative thinking exercises; you'll discover how to get the creative juices flowing in individuals, small groups and entire organizations; you'll learn how to survey the full range of creativity enhancers - including films, audiocassettes, books, idea generation aids, etc.
Making Humor Work: Take Your Job Seriously And Yourself Lightly
Terry L. Paulson, Ph.D.
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1990)
This book is not just another book to make you laugh. You will laugh, but that's not its purpose. It introduces you to the value of humor on the job. The appropriate use of humor will not only increase your personal and professional effectiveness, but also the productivity of others.
Publicity Power: A Practical Guide To Effective Promotion
Charles Mallory
Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, CA (1989)
This hands-on guide discusses: advertising; the responsibility of the editor for the coordination of publicity; marketing; media; placement; producer; promotion,; public relations and publicity. This guide also shows you how to: develop a promotional plan; take action and think about the possible outcomes.
Serious Play: A Leisure Wellness Guidebook
Martin Kimeldorf
This book is about leading a more balanced life and how to: get serious about play; squeeze time from the clock; start your second career after retirement; assess your leisure options; do the leisure search; use leisure wellness in drug treatment.
The Change Masters
Innovation & Entrepreneurship In The American Corporation
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, NY (1983)
- The key to an American corporate renaissance, lies in innovation, entrepreneurship and the development of "participative management" skills that encourage the use of new ideas arising from within the corporation itself. The author demonstrates how corporations that re "integrationist" (successful at stimulating the innovative capacity of their people) rather than "segmentalist" (so rigidly structured at to stifle innovation) are able to stay ahead of changing technologies and markets.
The Creative Spirit
Daniel Goleman, Paul Kaufman, Michael Ray Dutton
The Penguin Group, New York, NY 10014
This book states that creativity can be cultivated by anyone - by children, adults, communities, companies, etc. It offers a series of practical exercises to strengthen your creativity and shake loose old negative habits of thought. It explains how to go about liberating the creative spirit within you - in whatever you do.
The Light Touch: How To Use Humor For Business Success
Malcolm Kushner
Simon and Schuster, New York, NY (1990)
Now is this breakthrough book, Malcolm Kushner, America's premier humor consultant, shows you how to tap the power of your most overlooked natural resource-your sense of humor. You don't have to be naturally funny. And you don't have to know how to tell jokes. Kushner's unique system enables anyone to use humor successfully.
The Memory Jogger Plus+
Michael Brassard
GOAL/QPC, Methuen, MA (1989)
The tools in this book have been combined into a cycle of activity that turns the output of one tool into the input of a related technique. This creates a continuous flow of analysis that really focuses any planning process.
The Memory Jogger II
A Pocket Guide of Tools for Continuous Improvement and Effective Planning
Michael Brassard & Diane Ritter
GOAL/QPC, Methuen, MA (1994)
This handbook is designed to help you and every person in your organization to improve daily the procedures, systems, quality, cost, and fields related to your job. this continuous improvement process is the focus of this book - sharing the philosophy and tools that are fundamental to this effort.
Thinkertoys: A Handbook Of Business Creativity For The 90's
Michael Michalko
Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA (1991)
How can you be the person who comes up with great ideas? This book makes it easier, with over 30 meticulously outlined techniques, and hundreds of hints, tricks, tips, and tales to turn anyone into a startlingly creative thinker. This book provides concrete, powerful idea-generating tools which have been tested and proven at some of America's top companies.
Wake Up Your Creative Genius
Kurt Hanks
Crisp Publications, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (1991)
WAKE P YOUR CREATIVE GENIUS shows you how to think more creatively--how to get good ideas and how to do something with them. It gives you proven techniques that can multiply the quantity and quality of your creative thoughts.
What A Great Idea! Key Steps Creative People Take
Charles "Chic" Thompson
Harper Perennial, A Division of Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY (1992)
In this workbook, the author teaches you how to challenge the assumptions you hold that at stifle your creativity, freeing you to discover your innate innovative abilities.