How to Develop Creative Approaches to Problem Solving

(Tools, Tips, and Techniques)

Articles

	Exploring Ideation and Creative Problem Solving.
	Let me sleep on it: Creative problem solving enhanced by REM sleep.
	Uses for creative problem solving skills. Conceptual blocks and overcoming them.
	Einstein's Secret to Amazing Problem Solving (and 10 Specific Ways You Can Use It).
	Eureka! How Distractions Facilitate Creative Problem-solving.
	Problem Solving Techniques. Flexibility is key.
	Morally Creative Problem Solving. "Even the simplest rules leave gray areas that call for judgment … there are always ‘sticky’ situations where the rules aren’t that helpful."
	Human-Factor Phenomena in Problem Solving.
	Body movements can influence problem solving. "The way you think is affected by your body and, in fact, we can use our bodies to help us think."
	Thirty(30) Inspiring Anecdotes to keep your creativity and problem solving fires burning including 'Keeper of the Spring', 'Time To Think', and 'A Short Course in Human Relations'. ... Note: Can sometimes load very slowly.
	Three(3) Creative Brainstorming Activities, Games and Exercises For Effective Group Problem Solving.
	Can everyone be an Einstein? Every time you challenge your brain, it will actually modify the brain. According to this article, "we can indeed form new brain cells, despite a century of being told it's impossible."
	Solving Problems With Fluid Intelligence.
	Using the Community to Stimulate Problem Solving.
	Thinking Around Corners - A New Perspective On Creative Thought.
	Daydreaming helps brain tackle complex problems.
	How to Problem Solve Like a Genius.
	Conducting a brainstorming session to generate business-building ideas.
	Whole Brain Thinking: How to Get Your Right Hemisphere in the Picture.
	Can Right-Brain Buildings Nurture Left-Brain Thinking?
	Retrain your brain from 'left' to 'right' to fit into new economy.
	Thinking like a genius. Strategies that encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems.
	Sudden Understanding: Aha! Favors The Prepared Mind.
	Are you a Right-Brain or Left-Brain Thinker?
	Use Your Whole Brain: Leveraging Right-Brained Thinking in a Left-Brained World
	Creativity and Strategic Thinking: The Coming Competencies.
	Thought Experiments: Use Deep Thought Provoking Questions To Boost Your Creativity.
	How To Think And Communicate Visually.
	Creativity Management - Intellectual Cross Pollination.

Videos

	Gregg Fraley talks about creative problem solving, his own creative journey, and lessons he learned.
	This music enhanced powerpoint video shows a combination of mind mapping and problem solving tools.
	Reversing the problem- a methodology for sparking the creative problem solving process.
	Institutional blindness and bringing fresh perspectives into an organization.
	Not directly related to problem solving, but this insightful video relates the differences in right brain and left brain thinking and functioning. Jill Bolte uses the example of her own brain stroke experience to illustrate the differences.
	Dr. Edward de Bono discusses Lateral Thinking -- a skill which everyone can learn.
	Solving Problems with 3D Thinking.
	UC Berkley - Explorations of the Mind: Intuition (the marvels and the flaws).
	John Sweeney: All of Us Were Created Innovatively Perfect!
	Weird, or just different? - there's a flip-side to everything.

Humor

	Thinking outside the box with Ma and Pa kettle. Lateral thinking in action.
	Dilbert: Invisible Robot. Consultant Dogbert suggests a solution to a tricky customer service problem.
	Take off on the escalator stuck people.
	Problem Solver - the HR Guy trying his best to hire and motivate his team by explaining the benefits to hiring the right candidates -- ones that can solve problems.
	How to Paint your House, the Mr.Bean way.

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