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How To Stimulate Creativity In Your Company -part 3-
4. Train on different tools for thinking “outside the box”
One complaint I hear frequently is that their managers give employees incremental ideas, or more of the same, while what they want are ideas are radical and different, that have the potential to transform the business. Find below some concrete tools managers can use to stimulate more radical and revolutionary ideas in his collaborators.
Mind Mapping: One of the most powerful tools for creative thinking are the mental maps. A mind map is a graphical technique to organize and connect ideas visually created by Tony Buzan, where part of a central node and ideas unfold as the branches of a tree in a radial fashion. This way of organizing ideas break with linear thinking and helps us create new connections between our ideas. Mind maps, being a graphical tool, promoting the use of the right hemisphere of our brain, which is associated with visual thinking and creative thinking. Read the rest of this entry »