Thinkertoys
"Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Business Creativity For the 90s" by Michael Michalko is a wonderful Swiss Army Knife of idea-generation techniques that should be on every innovator’s bookshelf.
The tone of the book is fun yet purposeful: Michael Michalko walks you through the "how-to’s" of a range of creativity exercises and techniques - plus practical examples and suggestions on how to use them.
Overall it's a great book just to keep delving into - again and again. ISBN 0898154081
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Contents
List of Techniques
Linear Thinkertoys
- False Faces
- Slice and Dice
- Cherry Split
- Think Bubbles
- SCAMPER
- Tug of War
- Idea Box
- Idea Grid
- The Toothache Tree
- Phoenix
- The Great Transpacific Airline
- Future Fruit
- Brutethink
- Hall of Fame
- Circle of Opportunity
- Ideatoons
- Clever Trevor
Intuitive Thinkertoys
- Chilling Out
- Blue Roses
- The Three B's
- Rattlesnakes and Roses
- Stone Soup
- Color Bath
- Dreamscape
- Da Vinci's Technique
- Dali's Technique
- Not Kansas
- The Shadow
- The Book of the Dead