Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) (edit title)

Anima edited the quotations of Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) 2 weeks ago.

• Added a quotation: “As Gore Vidal put it, "The brain that doesn't feed itself eats itself."”

Anima edited the table of contents of Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) 2 weeks ago.

• 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

Shelfari edited the description of Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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 and solve business problems in fresh, creative ways. An updated edition of the best-selling business creativity book, with more than 30 brainstorming techniques and hundreds of creative-thinking tips and tricks. Revision includes new techniques, examples, and sections on group brainstorming and endgames.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Robert Michalko, Michael: (Primary Author)
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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) Friday, July 17 2009.

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