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THINKERTOYS will teach you how to generate new ideas for businesses, markets, sales techniques, and products and product extensions. Packed with fun and practical tools and exercises, it outlines 30 practical linear and intuitive techniques that can be used by individuals or groups to tackle... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“As Gore Vidal put it, "The brain that doesn't feed itself eats itself."”
First Sentence
Can you identify the figure below?
Table of Contents
Preface
The Barking Cat (Introduction)
Initiation
1. Original Spin
2. Mind Pumping
3. Challenges
4. Thinkertoys
I. Linear Thinkertoys
Group A
5. False Faces (reversal)
6. Slice and Dice (attribute listing)
7. Cherry Split (fractionation)
8. Think Bubbles (mind mapping)
9. SCAMPER (questions)
Group B
10. Tug-of-War (force-field analysis)
11. Idea Box (morphological analysis)
12. Idea Grid (FCB grid)
13. Lotus Blossom (diagramming)
14. Phoenix (questions)
15. The Great Transpacific Airline and Storm Door Company (matrix)
16. Future Fruit (future scenarios)
Group C
17. Brutethink (random stimulation)
18. Hall of Fame (forced connection)
19. Circle of Opportunity (forced connection)
20. Ideatoons (pattern language)
21. Clever Trevor (talk to a stranger)
II. Intuitive Thinkertoys
22. Chilling Out (relaxation)
23. Blue Roses (intuition)
24. The Three B's (incubation)
25. Rattlesnakes and Roses (analogies)
26. Stone Soup (fantasy questions)
27. True and False (janusian thinking)
28. Dreamscape (dreams)
29. Da Vinci's Technique (drawing)
30. Dali's Technique (hypnogogic imagery)
31. Not Kansas (imagery)
32. The Shadow (psychosynthesis)
33. The Book of the Dead (hieroglyphics)
III. The Spirit of Koinonia
34. Warming Up
35. Brainstorming
36. Orthodox Brainstorming
37. Raw Creativity
IV. Endtoys
38. Murder Board
39. You Are Not a Field of Grass
Index
About the Author
Authors & Contributors
- Robert Michalko, Michael (Author)
- Michael Michalko
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