Starting up or running a small business definitely requires some creativity and innovation! If you are looking for an idea to start a small business, you need to understand the creativity thought process so you don't miss the next 'big idea'!

Being innovative can also help you find a new twist on an old idea and provide you with plenty of problem solving techniques.

Take a look at these books to help you develop your creativity.

Weird Ideas That Work

In his provocative and relentlessly useful book, Sutton presents a slew of tactics and strategies for bridging the innovation gap.

Sticky Wisdom

This one-of-a-kind book breaks creativity into six practical behaviors and shows you how all of us--not just the wacky genius--is packed with creative potential. This fully updated and expanded edition explores areas that the first edition did not, filled with new insights, stories, and cases it will help you find or recapture your creativity with proven exercises that will help unlock the creative potential in anyone.

Six Thinking Hats

There is nothing more sad and wasteful than a roomful of intelligent and highly paid people waiting for a chance to attack something the speaker has said. With the Six Hats methods the fullest use is made of everyone's intelligence, experience and information. The need for the Six Hats is based on an understanding of how the brain chemicals change with the mode of thinking. Using this method one major corporation reduced the time taken for multinational project discussions from 30 days to just two days.

Rousing Creativity : Think New Now!

Creativity is a difficult subject and a difficult challenge. Simply to think in a new way is often far beyond what most of us are willing to risk. It's so easy to be comfortable with the platitudes and hackneyed "think out of the box," "push the envelope" phrases that we forget that the only thing that counts is courage and action. Taking a new action is the only manifestation of your creativity. This book looks at how to be more creative.

Raise the Bar

The authors explain how you can develop an environment in which you are encouraged to break away from organisational thinking and actually generate new ideas.

30 Minutes to Brainstorm Great Ideas

The book provides ideas and advice on brainstorming alone or in a group to come up with ideas that really work.

Aha! : 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit

Aha!is an inspiring, yet practical guidebook for freeing the creative spirit .An extremely well-written, entertaining, action-ready guide for anyone who wants to live a more successful life. All success is rooted in great ideas. Aha! shows you how to create the ideas that will take you from where you are to where you want to be.

The Big Idea

Nowadays anyone can copy your product, or even your business model. What they can't copy is your worldview, your attitude, your special way of doing things. So in the future, the war in the marketplace will be a war of ideas. "The Big Idea maps" this new territory and shows how big ideas make great companies.

Instant Creativity

The only way to succeed nowadays is to throw away the rule book. Change is the name of the game, but innovation doesn't come easily. This is bad news when creativity is a survival skill. This book acts as an instant catalyst to free up your natural creativity - creativity that can be bottled up by habit, training or (lack of) energy. Instant Creativity provides an easy-to-use action kit bursting with exercises that will help everyone to make the most of his or her creativity.

Super Brain Power

This book contains exercises which may improve memory, increase concentration, enhance creativity and boost learning potential in 21 days. The exercises aim to transform the mind into a mental tape recorder capable of capturing every word heard and read; jump-start intelligence at will to solve the toughest problems; increase creativity by pre-programming the unconscious mind; win the enthusiasm and co-operation of others; and developing an emotional radar that automatically steers the reader towards success.

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