Big Ideas: Putting the Zest Into Creativity and Innovation at Work

Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
The structure of this book......Page 15
Begin by testing your IQ (Innovation Quotient)......Page 16
Some thoughts on how to introduce creativity, innovation and change into a business – describing an ideal......Page 17
A perspective about the world we live in from a creativity point of view......Page 20
A map for being and doing in a business – living innovation......Page 29
This part of the book is about Being......Page 32
Some things to Do so that you can Be – leadership for creativity......Page 33
The nature of subjective experience......Page 35
Leadership style and logical levels of influence and change......Page 40
Mission and Vision......Page 47
Moving towards your goal......Page 55
Accessing emotional resources and high-performance states......Page 62
Anchoring......Page 67
Seeing things from different perspectives......Page 75
Reframing: the transformation of meaning......Page 79
Speaking another person’s language......Page 84
Rapport and influencing skills......Page 95
Levels of leadership and leadership style......Page 101
This part of the book is about Doing......Page 108
Some things to do so that you can do......Page 109
Building star teams......Page 111
The death of the chairperson......Page 114
Metaphors to be together and grow understanding......Page 118
Questioning – the wisdom?......Page 120
How lazy we are with language......Page 128
Discounting and revenge cycles: how to assume positive intent......Page 131
Listening: for ideas and to the meeting in your head......Page 135
Speaking for easy listening – giving ideas or opinions......Page 139
Problem-solving model......Page 142
Getting ideas, speculation, dreaming and new perspectives......Page 144
Imaging, metaphor, analogy and excursion – journeys into absurdity......Page 149
Journey into absurdity......Page 151
Evaluation The quickest way to stop progress......Page 155
Selection of springboards......Page 157
Idea development, a process map for using speculation and absurdity in order to generate new ways of working......Page 161
Risk taking......Page 166
Itemized response......Page 170
Best current thinking......Page 173
Comfort rating......Page 175
Next steps......Page 177
Appendix 1......Page 178
Appendix 2: Communication for managing conflict......Page 193
Appendix 3: Synectics and its origins......Page 196
Appendix 4: What is NLP?......Page 197
Appendix 5: Ground rules for effective meetings......Page 203
Appendix 6: The IQ – Innovation Quotient......Page 205