1. Creative Thinking during Changing Times
“And one ought to consider that there is nothing more difficult to pull off, more chancy to succeed in, or more dangerous to manage, than the introduction of a new order of things.”
Creative Thinking during Changing Times

2. Demystifying the Creative Process
A mathematician said creativity is… A composer said creativity is...
Some theorists have said creativity is...
Creativity = Novelty & Social Feasibility

3. Creativity: Some notes on the creative process
Van Oech’s Explorer, Artist, Judge & Warrior, as roles in the process
Guilford’s Switchback Thinking by dynamically Converging & Diverging
Wallis’s Stages of the creativity process
The 5-S route to greater creativity
Homework: Tell us your CPS Story

4. Creativity: The goal of the process is Aha! & Eureka!

5. Creativity: Blocks and Blockbusting
Joe’s Resistances to Change as Blocks
What could some Cultural and Environmental Blocks be?.…
What could some Perceptual Blocks be?...
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

6. Creativity: Blocks and Blockbusting
Let’s try out your creative vision…
…Beyond Heaven & Hell
…You choose Whitch?
…It’s all in a Word

7. Creativity: Blocks and Blockbusting
The Minute Man
The Mona Lisa Complex
Stewing vs. Doing
Assaulting the Mountain
The Void
Walking the Plank
Intrinsic Motivation
The Dark Sea, The Ship of Self, The Lighthouse

8. Creativity: Blocks and Blockbusting
Here’s a summary of the Conceptual Blocks that Inhibit Creative Problem Solving...
...Constancy
...Commitment
...Compression
...Complacency
…From your experience?

9. Creativity: Blocks and Blockbusting
“It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.”

10. Creativity: Blocks and Blockbusting
The IX test for creative thinking
Idea Generation = Withholding Judgement by “Brainstorming”.
Having a Creative Whack Attack by Roger van Oech.

11. Creative Thinking during Changing Times
Today’s Feedback?
Moving on to Teambuilding and Leadership...Here’s the Homework
What are you going to Stop, Continue, Start between now and next time?