Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10582 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Synopsis
A guide designed to encourage creative thinking in business offers techniques, hints, and tricks for generating ideas and offers dozens of success stories.

From the Author
Contact the author.
I'm very much interested in comments, suggestions, and questions from users of THINKERTOYS (A HANDBOOK OF BUSINESS CREATIVITY FOR THE 90S). Michael Michalko E-mail: michalko@frontiernet.net

Customer Reviews

Every Creative Thinker Should Read This Classic
Thinkertoys expands your imaginative capacities with easy-to-use techniques you can employ
again-and-again in all your creative endeavors. A newer book well worth reading is Why Didn't I
Think of That? - Think the Unthinkable and Achieve Creative Greatness. These two books together
cover the full spectrum of useful creative thinking skills every serious thinker must possess. The
skills are learned, not inborn. The very best approach to fully developing the skills in yourself is to read about them and practice them with books such as Thinkertoys and Why Didn?t I Think of
That?

This is a treasure chest of business and creative ideas.
The dozens and dozens of creative methods detailed in this book are new and excellent tools for any business person. And even for non-business types. Michael goes through ways to change your view of a problem, dozens of idea generating methods, sorting and weeding techniques, and group and individual methods. The number and quality of surprising, startling, practical, usable, and results-generating ideas was a shock. And despite the 335 pages, it is not over written, as many large books are. This is a tight, easy reading, tool chest for innovation. And this collection of "Thinkertoys" will be part of your intellectual and problem-solving arsenal for years. As long as there are problems to solve, fun to have, and profits to make (through customers to serve) this book will be a heavenly gift and asset to anyone who reads and uses it.

It's everything advertised to be.
This book is everything it's advertised to be. It's a creative thinking workshop in a book. I can't imagine how the author could have written a better or more useful book on creativity in business. Wonderful job, Michael!