Creative Zing!: Spark Your Creativity—And Powerfully Present Your Ideas!

Business & Money

Harrison, Sam

Marketing & Sales

MacHillock Publishing

A five-step process for generating big ideas in business, personal, and professional contexts is outlined in this high-energy guide to the creative process. Real-world anecdotes and inspirational messages complement the straightforward discussions of exploring, being free, pausing, embracing, and enjoying life. These five steps cover issues such as how to use observation to uncover fresh ideas, how potential ideas are stymied, and how incubation allows the subconscious to find solutions. Brainstorming tools, exercises, and action steps illustrate how to put creative tools into practice. The upbeat, conversational style of this guide encourages professionals in all disciplines to develop a competitive edge through creativity.

Zing!: Five Steps and 101 Tips for Creativity On Command

Management & Leadership

Positioning ideas as the fuel of business success and personal fulfillment, this indispensable resource helps readers find creative fuel by helping them discover insights and develop habits that lead to more and better ideas. Written in a punchy style with easily digestible single-page messages, the book inspires creativity simply through the way it looks and feels, but it is also packed with stories, interviews, quotes, tips, exercises, and real-world examples that show readers how to think outside the box—and then throw away the box. With an emphasis on listening and learning, the book demonstrates the importance of stepping outside of daily ruts and showcases the value of exploration though local and long-distance travel. Additional skills covered include the finding of ideas in nature, learning from one's mistakes, digging beneath the surface, and thinking more positively.

IdeaSpotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

<div>This invigorating and enlightening handbook shows you how to generate more and better ideas AND how to present and sell those ideas to decision makers. &nbsp; "An eye-opening guidebook for someone just starting out on the way to a meaningful creative life or someone who wants to find their way back to one." - Brian Collins Founder of COLLINS design consultancy and a Fast Company Master of Design &nbsp; "Fire up your creativity today--and use this book as your spark." - Daniel Pink Author of When and Drive &nbsp; Through his talks and coaching, books and articles, Sam Harrison has helped and inspired thousands of designers, marketers, PR people, communicators, teachers, students, business leaders and other creative professionals. &nbsp; Harrison now brings together a fresh collection of his real-world tips, tools and action steps in a concise, inviting book so readers can have more ideas and get those ideas approved by bosses and clients. &nbsp; Creativity is inherent in all people, but it's often suppressed by external and internal factors. Harrison says that's why individuals and teams too often wind up in the Zombie Zone of boredom and weak ideas or in the Zigzag Zone of confusion and non-productive ideas. &nbsp; This book guides people out of those zones and into a Zing Zone of strong, consistent ideas--and effective presentations of those ideas. By thriving in a creative Zing Zone, readers will have a more imaginative, fulfilling life. &nbsp; The book's powerful content is presented as digestible, single-page messages, perfect for busy, on-the-go people in today's media-saturated world.&nbsp; There's no fluff to lumber through--just quick-hitting, how-to suggestions, quotes and examples readers can start using the very next day. &nbsp; "Creative resources are inside us," writes Harrison, "but to stay creative we have to practice daily creative habits. And to get ideas approved, we have to polish presentation skills. This book shows you how."</div>

Creative Zing!: Spark Your Creativity ― and Powerfully Present Your Ideas!

Self-Help

Creativity

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