Book Byte #257 "The Creator Mindset" by Nir Bashan
92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets of Innovation
📣 Curious Quotes from the Author
Creativity's Unlikely Personality Traits: This principle explains how humor, empathy, and courage are the unlikely cornerstones of creativity in business.
On the Virtues of Listening: This principle highlights three time- management skills that can be learned only in the context of a creative outlook.
The Importance of the Little Victory: Often, we are led to believe
that big victories are the only ones that matter. But our attention should be focused instead on how to envision our goals creatively in small chunks.
The Value of Making Mistakes: Mistake utility is a view found only in creativity in which a mistake becomes lucrative. Here we look at how mistakes can benefit your company and career. Art and the Ego. The gap between creativity and art is huge, and so are our egos from time to time. We must learn the difference to keep ego from taking over.
Character Counts: Three creative tools will help your career or business when times get tough, which they always do.
The Four P’s: You Need for Growth. My four Ps of business will help anyone embrace creativity collectively at every step of my program.
The Disease of Self-Doubt: This principle shows us how to use creativity to fight one of humanity's most destructive behaviors. Comfort, Computers, and the Multitasking Myth. Technology and comfort work in concert to decrease creativity. This principle helps you understand how to resist comfort and limit technology so that creativity can bloom.
How to Champion the Good Idea: This principle highlights five ways to find what is trapping and limiting creativity in your career or organization and then how to free it.
The Creator Mindset Guide to Crisis: In the face of a terrible tragedy in 1982 came an accidental road map to creativity that we can use today.
The Complacency Conundrum: This principle is illustrated by case studies about companies that were creative but then got complacent. It shows what we can learn from their mistakes about how to keep from getting complacent in our careers or
businesses.
📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea
The success of the businesses of the future will be driven by creativity. Businesses that can successfully integrate creativity into their business plan will be well-positioned to prosper in the ensuing decades. Those who don't run the risk of losing relevance. Investing in creative individuals, cutting-edge technology, and research are all important aspects of embracing creativity in business. Other strategies include fostering an inventive work environment and being open to new ideas and constantly refining existing operations. Have a brainstorming session at work with your team.
Because we can do more as a team than we could working alone, the majority of us labor in teams. Group work, however, also greatly enhances creativity. Ideation sessions inside the team are an excellent means of generating new ideas, igniting passion, and increasing team engagement. You may, for instance, implement the trinity-of-creativity method in the workplace with your team. You might find it simpler to lead and regulate brainstorming sessions if you break down your business into its concept, idea, and implementation.
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