By examining the seven essential aspects of Da Vinci's way of thinking, this guidebook gives you the tools you need to enhance aptitude in every area of your life. Numerous exercises, anecdotes and illustrations help you master these techniques to create a personal and professional renaissance of your very own.

A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques.

A textbook of creativity. It shows how the habit of lateral thinking can be encouraged and new ideas generated.

Helps businessmen to develop techniques of creative thinking in the boardroom.

Scenario planning allows companies to move away from linear thinking and better understand external change. This book provides in depth analysis and application of the concept of the strategic conversation. It offers the tools to set out and negotiate a successful future course for your organization in the face of significant uncertainty.

There are different types of intelligence, such as creativity, logic, lateral thinking, memory and personality that are equally or more important than IQ. This title helps you to assess these different types of intelligence. It also helps you to exploit your enormous brain potential, increase its performance and enhance quickness of thought.

Believing that creativity is central to our being, May outlines the limits to what we know and do not know about creativity. He links the element of courage to creativity to reveal the process of discovery in which a person generates new forms and patterns that build new social systems.

Thomas S. Kuhn's work explaining the process of scientific discovery. This text is the third edition and incorporates a new index.

This text lays out a proven framework based on the Simplex Process for divergent thinking, developed and implemented with corporations such as Proctor and Gamble and Ford. This thinking technology can be learned to release creativity and innovation in individuals and organizations.

Why do you think of five important things to remember for tomorrow just as you're about to fall asleep? Why do you take the same wrong turning every single time? The first part of the book shows that, however odd the external phenomena at work, there is generally a scientific explanation.

In this unique attempt to address the dilemma in contemporary education, the noted cognitive scientist weaves the lessons garnered from three vantage points: his own traditional education as an American child, his years of research on creativity at Harvard, and what he saw in modern Chinese classroomsinto a program that draws on the best of both modes, traditional and progressive.

People spend vast amounts of money, time and trouble to achieve and maintain beauty, and yet despite its undisputed importance few of us devote similar efforts to be interesting. This book helps in acquiring this crucial, life enhancing skill.

Outlines the approach for working with clients to develop clear, cogent, and creative communication. Divided into three parts, this book offers a methodology for artistic and professional work and also offers technical advice for translating this to the web.

The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People.

Optimise your thinking, decision making and problem solving with the inventor of the term 'lateral thinking'.

A sequel to The Artist's Way that presents the next step in Julia Cameron's course of discovering and recovering the creative self. Full of valuable strategies and techniques for breaking through new creative ground, this is the intermediate-level of the programme.

'Learning to loaf' -- this books explores the ways of knowing that require more time, the ways we have unlearned or ignore, but that are crucial to our complete mental development.