Michael Michalko

Michael Michalko is a highly-acclaimed creativity expert and author of the best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity), ThinkPak (A Brainstorming Card Deck), Cracking Creativity (The Secrets of Creative Genius), and Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work. Michael provides keynote speeches, workshops, and seminars on fostering creative thinking for clients who range from Fortune 500 corporations to associations and governmental age

Self Improvement
7 Ways to Wake up Your Imagination
Want to energize your imagination? Read on to learn how to awaken your creative thinking. If we toss seeds on hard packed ground, the chances of...
Self Improvement
16 Ways to Jump Start Creativity
Simply put, the key to increasing creativity in any organization is to make it start acting like a creative organization. Suppose you wanted to be an artist: You...
Self Improvement
9 easy ways to get new ideas
How to get new ideas An easy way to generate a lot of ideas is to apply a checklist of nine creative-thinking principles that were first...
Motivation
You Become What You Pretend to Be
Your attitude influences your behavior, and, conversely, your behavior influences your attitude. Our attitudes influence our behavior. Michelangelo believed he was the greatest artist in...
Self Improvement
You do not see things as they are, you see them as you are
Imagine that you are on the way to a Broadway play with a pair of tickets that cost one hundred dollars, and you discover you have...

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Michael Michalko

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7 Ways to Wake up Your Imagination

16 Ways to Jump Start Creativity

9 easy ways to get new ideas

You Become What You Pretend to Be

You do not see things as they are, you see them as you are