The Creative Thinking Handbook

Learn how to think creatively with this comprehensive handbook, packed with advice, practical tools, useful templates and a tried-and-tested problem-solving model.

This book

• Written by bestselling author, speaker, coach and creative thinking expert Chris Griffiths, whose books have been sold in over 15 countries and translated into five languages

• Packed with practical tools and useful templates to help the reader unlock their creative problem-solving potential, generate more ideas and find solutions to any professional challenge • Includes case studies from SAP, Hewlett Packard, JP Morgan, the BBC • New to this edition: Updated throughout with new case studies, examples and exercises, as well as new advice on how to use creative thinking with neurodiverse colleagues

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Description

Creativity directly impacts results and productivity, yet few of us understand how it happens or how to put it into practice. This book shows you not only how to get things done, but how to do them better and more creatively.

The Creative Thinking Handbook provides the correct application for creative thinking and action, by offering clear, practical tools and strategies so that you can develop creative thinking skills and help find brilliant solutions for any professional challenge.

Based on research and proven-to-work creative thinking models, Chris Griffiths and Melina Costi present a clear introduction to what creative thinking is, explain why we all need to do it and help you generate ideas and make better decisions.

The Creative Thinking Handbook gets you to think differently by thinking creatively.

Table of Contents

Introduction – Why do we need new ideas, really? 1. Thinking about your thinking 1. The decision radar 2. Common thinking errors – Selective thinking 3. Common thinking errors – Reactive thinking 4. Common thinking errors – Assumptive thinking 2. The solution finder

5. The context for creative problem solving 6. The solution finder

step 1 – Understanding 7. The solution finder

step 2 – Ideation 8. The solution finder

step 2 – Ideation toolkit 9. The solution finder

step 3 – Analysis 10. The solution finder

step 4 – Direction 3. The end of the beginning 11. Commit to ‘thinking differently’ 12. Creative leadership 13. Conclusion – Where do you go from here?

The Creative Thinking Handbook

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Problem Solving in Business

Edition: 2 Date: 03/09/2022 Paperback: 9781398607064 £16.99 Ebook: 9781398607071 £16.99 Hardback: 9781398607088 £50.00 Pages: 256 Format (mm): 234x156 Band: General Subject: Innovation

Author Information

Chris Griffiths is founder and CEO of OpenGenius, and world-leading expert on the application of innovation and Mind Mapping®. He has helped drive business growth for thousands worldwide, including teams and individuals from Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies, the United Nations and Nobel Laureates. His is based in Cardiff,

Wales.

Melina Costi is a professional business writer with a background in marketing management. She has co-authored several books. She is based in Cheshire, UK.

Caragh Medlicott is a full-time freelance writer and a Senior Editor at Wales Arts Review, based in Cardiff, Wales.