Imagineer Michael Michalko

Michael Michalko is one of the most highly-acclaimed creativity experts in the world and author of the best-seller Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity), ThinkPak (A Brainstorming Card Deck), and Cracking Creativity (The Secrets of Creative Genius).

Michael has provided speeches, workshops, and seminars on fostering creative thinking for clients who range from Fortune 500 corporations, such as DuPont, Kellogg's, General Electric, Kodak, Microsoft, Exxon, General Motors, Ford, USA, AT&T, Wal-Mart, Gillette, and Hallmark to associations and governmental agencies. In addition to his work in the U.S., Michael speaks and provides workshops in countries around the world.

As an officer in the U.S. Army, he organized a team of NATO intelligence specialists and international academics in Frankfurt, Germany to research, collect, and categorize all known inventive-thinking methods. His team applied these methods to various NATO military, political, and economic problems and produced a variety of breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to new and old problems. After leaving government service, he was contracted by the CIA to facilitate think tanks and using his creative-thinking techniques.

Michael's latest book Cracking Creativity describes the common thinking strategies creative geniuses have used in the sciences, art, and industry throughout history and shows how we can apply them to become more creative in our business and personal lives. Visit his Web site at www.creativethinking.net.

Creativity Articles & Features with Michael Michalko

Interview with Author Michael Michalko
By Molly Anderson-Childers
Read what inspires Michael and learn about Koinonia principles, Abstraction techniques, Edison's Idea File, Blossom Brainstorming, and DaVinci's Idea Box.

Preface to Michael Michalko's Book "Thinkertoys"
By Michael Michalko
A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques.

The Tale of Five Monkeys
By Michael Michalko
We don’t question that with which we are most familiar.

Charles Darwin and Creative Thinking
By Michael Michalko
To change the way you think and become a more productive thinker, you need to learn how to think like a genius.

The Creative Thinking Habits of Thomas Edison
By Michael Michalko
The legendary career of inventor Thomas Alva Edison illustrates how creativity can be cultivated by anyone, in any industry.