Catch Hold Of Sticky Wisdom: How To Start A Creative Revolution At Work Designed And Illustrated By Dave Allan In Print

short, informal book is worth a read to get you out of autopilot and into the brave new world of innovation, Almostyears after it was written, it still is the basis for how WhatIf! runs its innovation workshops and trains people on Design Thinking like myself this month.
Many of the ideas have been refined and new tools created but this book is a bargain to get you started, Although not every idea in this book is new, the book nicely lays out a set of behaviors that stimulate creative thinking,
The book is easy to read, and contains many wonderful ideas for idea generation,
If you're ever out of ideas and need to create a creative environment, the book can certainly help,

The book did not address the scenario where you have too many ideas and not enough time to implement them all, Coming up with ideas is one thing, execution is another, How do you pick the best idea With even a few aspeople brainstorming on a certain topic, many ideas come to the table.
It is very timeconsuming to explore each idea in some detail, People know that and immediately start analyzing their own and others' ideas, The book describes this as RAIN, which kills ideas, Yet, the books SUN approach basically nurturing ideas for some time does not scale very well,

Overall a great book, a relatively quick read with about a dozen great tools for your toolbox, Read this entire book yesterday while delayed from DTW to LGA in prep for a team offsite, Had some good nuggets, especially around the notions of having the courage to speak up with your ideas, how to properly frame requests for feedback, along with some improvlike ideas for igniting a productive brainstorm.
Recommended by Philip Dilley, Arup, in the Financial Times, There was indeed a lot of wisdom in this book, Essentially the book is about six creative behaviours creativity is a behaviour innovation is

a process to encourage creativity at work, These are: Freshness, Greenhousing, Realness, Momentum, Signalling and Courage

Freshness and Realness are the most straightforward chapters that if you've read other creativity books you'll probably find straightforward.
Essentially, keep fresh stimulus coming in and make things real e, g. don't come to a meeting without a prototype,

The other chapters of Greenhousing, Momentum, Signalling and Courage are all insightful looks at some of the barriers and ways to surpass them of implementing creativity in an organisation.
What I liked about them was how real they all are, and how they reflect the more subtle ways that creativity is suppressed within most organisations.
You will definitely get some useful insights from these chapters that I haven't seen explicitly elsewhere, For example, they have some sensible suggestions about creating minienvironments to creatively build on ideas vs analyse them, This can be in dedicated sessions part of greenhousing, ordays in a cottage to make things happen momentum, or decisionsfirst meetings where votes are taken on decisions before discussing to see if they need to be discussed at all, or prefacing an idea the right way to help people build rather than analyse signalling.


The last chapter on Courage though perhaps less actionable than the others really gets down to the depths of releasing your creativity at work.
Lots of the insights here parallel that in improvisation books, Really good stuff. This was a quick read about innovation and creativity in the workplace, I will definitely take some of the advice in the book when it comes to listening to new ideas and trying to implement them.
Great business book for learning how to be more creative at work, I really liked the first four behaviors for increasing your creativity: freshness, greenhousing, realness, and momentum, They make a lot of practical sense and I'm confident that I will be able to incorporate them into my work life, The last two behaviors, signalling and courage, were not as inspiring, but I can see how they are also important, OK, a few nice thoughts, Many real examples.


sitelinkAlexander Although the first edition of the book was issued in, and some pieces of advice are hard to be taken into consideration nowadays, there are itsy bitsy pieces that are worth using inas well.
Creativity, as weird as it may seem, consists of hard work, persistence and challenging people you work with, And this book pretty much explains it why, A great single day infoflick for creative team leaders,

print quality and design is really good, it feels good to have this book yearversion in hand
easy to read and understand
has loads of examples and real life stories
probably this is best for new leaders without years of expierence as most of the techniques are basic but it works as a grear reminder for professionals too.

A sweet read: Simple and clear, some quotes should be printed and placed on my desk as mantras, A good book that will probably give you a few ideas on how to create a better environment for creativity or innovation, Most of this you probably know, but they organize it very well,

The ideas are good and you will have seen a lot of these in other books,

InnovationWe all know how important creativity is at work, New ideas, fresh solutions, and innovative approaches are always talked about, but rarely ever practiced,
Whatif!, Second Edition gives you the power, insight, and courage to capture the essence of creativity at work, This oneofakind book breaks creativity into six practical behaviors and shows you how all of usnot just the wacky genuisis packed with creative potential.


This fully updated and expanded edition explores areas that the first edition did not, filled with new insights, stories, and cases it will help you find or recapture your creativity with proven exercises that will help unlock the creative potential in anyone.
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