Introduction

Creative thinking skills are vital to your success. The average manager spends 50 percent or more of his or her time solving problems, either alone or with others. Your ability to deal with difficulties and solve problems will, more than anything else, determine everything that happens to you in your career. In fact, it is safe to say that an individual with poor creative thinking skills will be relegated to working for those with better-developed creative thinking skills.

The good news is that creativity is a skill, like riding a bicycle or operating a computer, that can be learned and developed with practice. In addition, there seems to be a direct relationship between the quantity of new ideas that you generate in your work and ...

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