IDEAS GENERATOR
One Page
What if there was a simple tool that turned you into a problem-solving genius?
Introducing the One-Page
Ideas Generator
In a single session, this tool will help you generate at least ten potential solutions to any problem, challenge or issue.
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Ideal for individuals, or team brainstorming sessions.
How it works
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Write the problem, challenge or issue you want to generate some options for at the top of the sheet.
Do the six creative-thinking exercises on the sheet. You have a user manual on the back.
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Choose which of the 10 potential solutions you have just generated to test first.
Who is the Ideas Generator for?
Individuals looking for new ways to address any problem or challenge: from changing your career; to improving a relationship; to making a better world.
Work Teams or Groups looking to think laterally. Forget traditional brain-storming. This will generate at least 10 truly out-of-the-box ideas.
Learn to think like Einstein
Albert Einstein said, ‘If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.’
Unlike Einstein, most people dive straight into problem-solving mode and, more often than not, end up trying to solve the wrong problem.
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The Ideas Generator gets you to look at the problem through six different prisms. It's a structured way to think like Einstein.
An innovation that help you think creatively
Twenty years ago, a Scottish politician's asked me: 'What is the secret of your creativity?' For two decades I searched for the answer and wrote what I discovered in the book, Your New Wings: living life more creatively.
But then I began wondering, 'Can I take all the insights from the book and condense them into a one-page problem-solving tool that helps individuals or groups generate lateral solutions?'
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The result may be my greatest innovation yet.
