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Michael Michalko is an internationally acclaimed creative thinking expert and the author of:

Thinkertoys A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques
	New Edition ISBN: 1-58008-773-6 416 pages Paperback Ten Speed Press Avg Reader Rating

Cracking Creativity The Secrets of Creative Genius
	ISBN: 1-58008-311-0 309 pages Paperback Ten Speed Press Avg Reader Rating

Thinkpak A Brainstorming Card Deck
	New Edition ISBN: 1-58008-772-8 56 Cards, 64 pages Boxed kit with book Ten Speed Press Avg Reader Rating

Excerpts from testimonials by reviewers at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and WaldenBooks: (Scroll down for brief descriptions of these works.)

Michael Michalko unveils the secrets of creative genius and brings life-changing creative techniques within everyone's reach. His arsenal of powerful creative thinking tools can be used to tackle virtually any type of technical problem and create new ideas. Without a doubt, his tools are the closest thing there is to a tactical instruction manual for thinking like a genius. Use them to learn to approach problems with new vision and discover a world of innovative solutions to everyday, and even some not-so-everyday challenges. Michael's online library gives you an opportunity to explore and study some of his many creative thinking techniques, exercises, articles, and interviews. A trip to your local library was never this worthwhile ... or so much fun.

THINKERTOYS: Michael Michalko is a leading creativity expert who specializes in leading creative thinking workshops, seminars on fostering creativity, and think tanks. In this book, he presents dozens of field-tested, immediately usable tools for generating ideas and stimulating creativity, and you will gain an understanding of over 100 creativity techniques that can be applied to problems, opportunities or situations. The principles and methodologies include a wide variety of options developed by Michael Michalko, and the strategies are easily adapted to specific needs or industries.

CRACKING CREATIVITY: In this trailblazing book, internationally renowned business creativity expert Michael Michalko shows you how to use the thinking secrets of creative people. The techniques used by hundreds of history's greatest thinkers, from Leonardo daVinci to Pablo Picasso, are presented in practical ways for use in modern life. By becoming familiar with concepts that result in original thought and examining a variety of creative thinking techniques, you learn to "see what others do not see" and to "think what others are not thinking." The result is an "opportunity mindset."

THINKPAK: Michael Michalko developed this ingenious pack of brainstorming cards to assist people in stimulating their creativity and fostering new and different ideas. It is a great tool for coming up with creative ideas for developing new (or changing existing) products, services, names, businesses, processes, marketing materials, etc. --- anything you need to think about in fresh, new ways.