Mind Maps

Mind Mapping is an important technique that improves the way you take notes, and supports and enhances your creative problem solving. By using Mind Maps, you can quickly identify and understand the structure of a subject and the way that pieces of information fit together, as well as recording the raw facts contained in normal notes. More than this, Mind Maps provide a structure which encourages creative problem solving, and they hold information in a format that your mind will find easy to remember and quick to review.

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Imagine a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb toward the banana. As soon as he touches the stair, spray all the monkeys with ice-cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result — all the monkeys are sprayed with icecold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. (more…)

Few rules:

• Don’t think money! Money isn’t what drives creative people. Instead think of valuing their work, reward excellence, and minimize hassles.
• Think of variety. Don’t take the people that look similar, that have the same background, etc. Diversity is key!
• Challenge: creative people love challenges. They want to do a good work.
  Keep it simple! Don’t bother your staff with too many meetings. Let them work their way, as long as the job is done.

“If you leverage the intrinsic motivation of creative workers by stimulating their minds and minimizing hassles; if you raze barriers between managers by ensuring that your managers are creatives, too; if you tap into the creative talents of your customers instead of looking just to your nurture long-term relationships with users and employees alike, you will increase your creative capital manifold.” Says Richard Florida and Jim Goodnight in their article Managing for Creativity.

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Written by Loic Bonnaillie, http://bonnaillie.com , a blog on the best practices

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I chose to pick up this example on reversing a challenge from the great book ThinkerToys, a bible for any persons looking for improving their creative abilities or any entrepreneurs looking for new opportunities. I really enjoy reading and exercising with this book written by Michael Michalko.

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To reverse a challenge:
1. State your challenge
2. List your assumptions
3. Challenge your fundamental assumptions
4. Reverse each assumptions. Write down the opposite of each one
5. Record differing viewpoints that might prove useful to you
6. Ask yourself how to accomplish each reversal. List as many useful points and ideas as you can

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I chose to pick up this example on reversing a challenge from the great book ThinkerToys, a bible for any persons looking for improving their creative abilities or any entrepreneurs looking for new opportunities. I really enjoy reading and exercising with this book written by Michael Michalko.

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To reverse a challenge:
1. State your challenge
2. List your assumptions
3. Challenge your fundamental assumptions
4. Reverse each assumptions. Write down the opposite of each one
5. Record differing viewpoints that might prove useful to you
6. Ask yourself how to accomplish each reversal. List as many useful points and ideas as you can

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