by theBREWROOM | May 25, 2022 | Change, Creativity, Innovation
What happens when the world changes unexpectedly, and you find yourself scrambling to solve problems that you never anticipated? Change is uncomfortable. And radical change can be terrifying. But change is the catalyst for innovation. In Why innovate? When the rules... by Roger Firestien | Mar 23, 2022 | Creative Problem Solving Techniques, Creativity, Videos
Spoiler alert: You may be wearing a pair! What do you do when you run out of ideas and you need a breakthrough? In one of my new online courses To create breakthroughs, make connections you will learn a simple technique that you can apply to ANY problem... by Roger Firestien | Feb 16, 2022 | Creative Problem Solving Techniques, Creativity, Uncategorized
Do you want creative ideas? Then you need to ask the right questions. In one of my new online courses To Get Better Ideas, Solve the real Problem, learn how the language you use to describe a problem will determine whether you solve the actual problem or just a... by Roger Firestien | Feb 15, 2022 | Creative Problem Solving Techniques, Creativity
Creativity Expert Exchange 2022 More than 2 decades ago the department formerly known as the International Center for Studies in Creativity (now the Center for Applied Imagination) began hosting an annual conference that came to be known as CEE (Creativity Expert... by Roger Firestien | Jan 14, 2022 | Creativity
Remember when you were in school and you took multiple choice tests? When you came to a question and you weren’t quite sure what the answer was, what was the advice? The advice I remember was: “Go with your first impression. It’s usually the right answer.” In... by Roger Firestien | Nov 16, 2021 | Creative Problem Solving Techniques, Creativity
Certainly, you have heard the phrase, “think outside the box.” It is an appeal to think beyond the usual boundaries of your problem to, hopefully, get creative ideas. Here is a new phrase to try on: “think outside the biological.” In medicine, that means to think...