Description
The illustration on the cover shows you one way to connect the nine dots in this box using only four straight lines, without lifting your pen. There are many other ways to connect the nine dots. How many ways can you identify?
To solve this puzzle, you need to "think out of the box"! To solve any problem in today's fast-changing global marketplace, companies need people who aren't "boxed in" by traditional modes of thinking, who approach situations with innovative solutions. Think Out of the Box shows you how to become such a person.
Drawing on his own creative expertise as the former dean of Disney University and as in-demand corporate adviser and speaker, Mike Vance uses a nine-dot matrix to plot the nine necessary points of a creative culture: people, place, product, involving, informing, inspiring, caring, cooperation and creativity. Vance and coauthor Diane Deacon show you how to connect these components and make them part of your company's culture. Together they tell you how to turn your own ways of thinking upside down...so you can turn your organization right side up.
The same creative solutions that major corporations have clamored after for three decades are consolidated for the first time in this book. Vance, chairman and founder of the Creative Thinking Association of America, has been a highly sought-after creativity consultant for more than 30 years. Many of the techniques discussed in this book have been used for the formation or transformation of culture at such corporate giants as Apple Computer, General Electric, AT&T, General Foods, Johnson & Johnson and The Walt Disney Company.
