Unlocking your creative power : how to use your imagination to brighten life, to get ahead / Alex Osborn; abridged and forward by Robert W. Galvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osborn, Alex.

Contributor:

Galvin, Robert W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination.

Creative ability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 134 p.)

Edition:

[Abridged ed.] / abridged and foreword by Robert W. Galvin.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Hamilton Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Your Creative Power is a guide to harnessing and expressing your creative potential and leadership in the workplace. Alex Osborn wrote the following: "Emotional drive is self-starting and largely automatic, whether based on hunger, fear, love, or ambition. " "For all of us, a good rule is always to encourage ideas-to encourage speaking up as well as thinking up." "Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking. " "If we set aside a defined period for creative thinking we can best lure the muse." "With enough creative effort, each of us could find the ideas that would smooth out rocky roads!"

Contents:

Chapter 1 Foreword Part 2 1. Creativity Examined Chapter 3 The lamp that lit the world can light your life Chapter 4 Creative effort pays in more coins than cash Chapter 5 All of us possess this talent Chapter 6 Educated or self-educated; old or young Chapter 7 Creative power needs no ivory tower Chapter 8 Imagination takes many forms, including non-creative Chapter 9 Creative imagination is manifold and interacting Chapter 10 The creative fuel we store; is it rich or thin? Chapter 11 The power of association joins memory with imagination Chapter 12 Emotional drive as a source of creative power Chapter 13 Where there's a will there are ways to think up Chapter 14 Judgment may choke ideas; let's keep it in its place Chapter 15 Let's try not to undermine our own creative power Part 16 2. Preparation for Creativity Chapter 17 Others can help make or mar our creativity Chapter 18 Even exercise can be fun, especially in creative thinking Chapter 19 To attack a creative task we first get set Chapter 20 Let's now pick our target and set our aim Chapter 21 Break down the problem; fill in the facts Chapter 22 Let's send forth our imagination in search of alternatives Chapter 23 To what other uses could this be put? Chapter 24 What can we borrow and adapt to our need? Chapter 25 Let's look for a new twist; let's modify Chapter 26 What if we add, or multiply; or magnify? Chapter 27 Let's subtract and divide; let's minify Chapter 28 Let's seek "that" instead of "this"; let's substitute Chapter 29 Let's change the pattern; let's re-arrange Chapter 30 There's lots of good hunting in vice versa Part 31 3. Imagination Guides Chapter 32 Your creative key may be a combination Chapter 33 Ideas will fly in our windows, if we've opened them Chapter 34 Lady luck smiles upon those who are 'A-hunting' Chapter 35 Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas Chapter 36 Two heads are better than one; but not always Chapter 37 How to organize to create ideas Chapter 38 Idea-thinking on a larger scale; suggestion systems Chapter 39 Creative power needs more help from education Chapter 40 Creative power's place in leadership

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-7618-4626-3

1-282-47981-4

9786612479816