Big ideas : putting the zest into creativity / Jonne Ceserani.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ceserani, Jonne, 1954-
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Kogan Page, 2003.
Subjects:
Physical Description:x, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Some thoughts on how to introduce creativity, innovation and change into a business : describing an ideal
  • A perspective about the world we live in from a creativity point of view
  • Being
  • Mission and vision
  • Moving towards your goal
  • Accessing emotional resources and high-performance states
  • Anchoring
  • Seeing things from different perspectives
  • Reframing : the transformation of meaning
  • Speaking another person's language
  • Rapport and influencing skills
  • Levels of leadership and leadership style
  • Doing
  • The death of the chairperson
  • Metaphors
  • Questioning the wisdom?
  • How lazy we are with language
  • Discounting and revenge cycles : how to assume positive intent
  • Listening : for ideas and to the meeting in your head
  • Speaking for easy listening
  • Giving ideas or options
  • Nine-step creative problem-solving model
  • Springboards
  • Imaging, metaphor, analogy and excursion
  • Journeys into absurdity
  • Selection of springboards
  • Idea development, a process map for using speculation and absurdity in order to generate new ways of working
  • Risk taking
  • Itemized response
  • Best current thinking
  • Comfort rating
  • Next steps.