026: Structures for Creativity and Problem-Solving with Tim Hurson

Master facilitator Tim Hurson shares some of his favorite insights and approaches for creativity and problem-solving.

You’ll learn:

1) The know-wonder and GPS tools for sparking additional creative ideas

2) The mighty benefits of the “third third” when coming up with creative ideas

3) A wonderfully obvious secret of productivity

Tim Hurson is a founding partner of thinkx intellectual capital (www.thinkxic.com), a firm that provides global corporations with training, facilitation, and consultation in productive thinking and innovation. He’s both a faculty member and Trustee of the Creative Education Foundation, and a founding director of Facilitators Without Borders.

Tim thinks the phrase “out of the box thinking” should be put back in the box and buried in a deep hole.

Items mentioned in the show: 

• Facilitators Without Borders
• Think Better by Tim Hurson
• Never Be Closing by Tim Hurson
• Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
• Goran Ekvall’s work on organizational creativity
• The City & The City by China Mieville
• TimHurson.com
• Mindcamp.org creativity retreat

View transcript, show notes, and links at https://awesomeatyourjob.com/ep26

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