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Title:  Aha!
Media:  Book
Author:    Ayan, Jordan
Gain confidence to listen to your own creative spirit; Find the breakthrough you've been waiting for; Find and harness inspiration--wherever and whenever it occurs; Discover how you travel, reading, the arts, new technology, journaling, and more can form the basic building blocks of a more creative and rewarding life.

Title:  Artist's Way, The
Media:  Audio
Author:    Cameron, Julia
Recover your creativity from a variety of blocks: limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions ...and replace them with artistic confidence and productivity.

Title:  Conceptual Blockbusting
Media:  Book
Author:    Adams, James L.
Exercises and original thought problems designed to stretch the mind. Discover maps to get around mental blocks and help you to think flexibly and creatively.

Title:  Cracking Creativity
Media:  Book
Author:    Michalko, Michael
What is creativity? Why do some people seem to have so much of it? What's their secret? Can their methods be learned? Find the answers to those questions and more.
Each chapter examines a different creative-thinking strategy, showing how it has worked for creative geniuses and providing exercises that allow you to put it to work in your business or personal life.
Each strategy includes specific, practical techniques, with precise instructions on how to apply them to the business world and beyond.
Whatever your profession, this book will literally change the way your think.

Title:  Everyday Creativity
Media:    CD-Rom
Author:    Jones, Dewitt
A new approach to the seemingly enigmatic process of creativity, this program offers several techniques that will help you and others within your work area to apply this perspective.  Quite simply, creativity is looking at the ordinary and seeing the extraordinary.  Learn how to exercise your creativity to the best of your ability, to have more satisfaction in your work, your relationships, and your life, even while working with time constraints and limited resources.

Title:  Everyday Creativity
Media:  ideo
Author:    Jones, Dewitt
A new approach to the seemingly enigmatic process of creativity, this program offers several techniques that will help you and others within your work area to apply this perspective.  Quite simply, creativity is looking at the ordinary and seeing the extraordinary.  Learn how to exercise your creativity to the best of your ability, to have more satisfaction in your work, your relationships, and your life, even while working with time constraints and limited resources.

Title:  How to Tap Employee Idea-Power
Media:  ideo
Author:    Communication Briefings
Discover powerful ways to:
     Ensure that every idea is acted on with the help of a simple five-step process
     Become the "idea-person" and "problem-solver" people count on for solutions
     Overcome the "us  vs. them" mentality between some employees and management
     Use the Three E's to prove that the best ideas often come from people who don't consider themselves creative
     Keep brainstorming sessions effective with six top tips
     Establish a system that gives credit where credit is due

Title:  MARS Pathfinder, The (2 copies)
Media:  Book
Author:    Muirhead, Brian & Price Pritchett
What does your job have in common with a mission to Mars?
If you are being asked to do things differently, to pick up speed, upgrade quality and lower costs, you're not alone.  Using the example of the Pathfinder spacecraft landing on July 4, 1997, this book contains 13 lessons that serve as living proof that "faster-better-cheaper" works in deep space as well as it does on earth.  Start practicing the Pathfinder approach outlined in this booklet.  You'll come to believe more in possibilities and less in limitations.  You'll become more innovative and create the most meaningful, exciting and fun experiences of your life.

Title:  Power of Innovative Thinking, The
Media:  Book
Author:    Wheeler, Jim
Make better decisions than ever before, more quickly and competently
Use the many options in your thinking process
Open the door to creativity you've always had but never tapped before
Put your thoughts into action
Build the power of your thoughts

Title:  Serious Creativity
Media:  Book
Author:    DeBono, Edward
Subtitled, "Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas"
Sections include:
The Need for Creative Thinking
Lateral Thinking Tools and Techniques
The Application of Creative Thinking
This is a step-by-step approach to creativity on demand.

Title:  Thinkertoys
Media:  Book
Author:    Michalko, Michael
In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. How can you be the person who comes up with those ideas?  The process is made easier with over 30 meticulously outlined techniques, hundreds of tricks, tips and tales to turn anyone into a startlingly creative thinker.  Find concrete, powerful idea-generating tools that have been tested and proven at some of America's top companies.  Generate ideas for new businesses, new products and product extensions, new markets, new sales techniques.

Title:  Thinking Beyond the Boundaries
Media:  Booklet
Author:    National Seminars Group
This is a hands-on approach to teach yourself and others to find innovative, new answers and make better decisions.

Title:  Thinking Outside the Boundaries Vol. 1
Media:  ideo
Author:    Fred Pryor Seminars
Video One: "Getting Creative"  'Limber up' to being creative.  Acquire tools to give yourself and others permission to be creative. Tap into your natural creativity.

Title:  Thinking Outside the Boundaries Vol. 2
Media:  ideo
Author:    Fred Pryor Seminars
Video Two: "Inventive Problem Solving"  Creative problem solving is made easy, and the possible pitfalls are explained so you can avoid them.  Learn how to put seemingly unrelated or irrelevant ideas from other fields to work for you.

Title:  Thinking Outside the Boundaries Vol. 3
Media:  ideo
Author:    Fred Pryor Seminars
Video Three: "Decision Making: A New Approach"  Equip yourself to implement any idea. The process of creating reality from vision is explained with six ways to make effective decisions and the five steps to implementing any idea.

Title:  Thinking Outside the Lines
Media:  Audio
Author:    Cohen, Gail
"Learn how to generate innovative solutions and brilliant ideas!"
Create a personal action plan for applying power thinking to all areas of your life
Break negative thinking habits that may be sabotaging your success
Give your thinking skills a boost with simple relaxation techniques
Destroy mental blocks with highly effective techniques

Title:  Whack on the Side of the Head, A
Media:  Book
Author:    VonOech, Roger
An interesting book...some topics include:
-Learning how to think
-Opening Mental locks
-Getting Whacked
-Soft and hard thinking
-Making the strange familiar
-Slay a sacred cow
-Imagine you're the idea
-Twelve-sided fun
-Cross-fertilization
-Listen to your dreams
-Groupthink
-Put on your fools cap
For those who need help jumpstarting creativity.

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