p.xii Underlying this entire book is an unshakable belief that we all are creative but unaware of
how to master the creativity within. Creativity is not limited to artists, musicians, and marketing people, explains
the author; it is a tangible and abundant wellspring that anyone can tap into.
p.4 Creativity helps everyone achieve extraordinary results for their organizations and for themselves.
p.5 The basis of this book is that everyone is creative... there is no one best way to be creative...
I define creativity as the ability to consistently produce different and valuable results.
p.96 Because [visionaries] have broad interests and tend to read a lot from many different fields,
they end up with a variety of sources of inspiration and multidisciplinary perspectives. After picking up a piece
of information in the external world, Visionaries spend time internally searching out new angles for viewing, interpreting,
and understanding the situation. Flashes from their unconscious provide them with unusual and powerful perspectives and inspiration
for new solutions and an unhampered view of the possibilities.
p.103-104 Depending on their particular situation, there are several steps Visionaries can take to gain maximum
benefit from their creative talent and improve the effectiveness of their creativity: ...
- Play to your strengths
- Develop greater self awareness
- Find the right creativity tools and techniques
- Be sure to capture your ideas
- Review and reflect on those ideas
- Use your auxiliary talent to help focus, to get outside your head, and to turn ideas and possibilities into
reality
- Use your auxiliary talent to connect with people and share ideas
- Know and learn your creative process
- Appreciate the team
- Limit your search for information
p.133 The contributions of the Inventors' creative talent come from their keen, questioning, and penetrating
minds. Inventors are logical, rational, detached, and objective problem solvers. They share a similar thinking approach
with Pilots, but more of an Inventor's analysis goes on internally, in a much less public way.
