I am an Idea Factory!

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I am an Idea Factory!

A personal leadership tool kit for innovators

Become an idea factory to find ideas whenever or wherever you need them to solve the challenges of your job or your organization.

Everyone needs new ideas on the job. This 48-page book is full of interesting graphics highly graphic and designed to help people understand what it means to be innovative. It's inspiring and an ideal incentive gift to use for staff workshops, conferences or training.

The book captures 10 years of accumulated common sense that helps people become effective innovative thinkers, those who can look at problems and confidently create original solutions to solve them. This book is designed to make people think.

It opens with some wisdom from Albert Einstein: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Yet, how often do we try to do just that?

I am an Idea Factory! is about

Recognizing that anyone can generate new ideas to solve the challenges they face
Having the conviction to solve problems creativity
Adopting innovative processes for creating new ideas more effectively
Believing that creativity and problem-solving are skills that can be learned and used

Why you need to be an idea factory

About 85 percent of all organizations are in the service industry. These organizations are full of people who service customers in the public, professional and not-for-profit sectors. While numerous manufacturers invest in research and development for new ideas, technologies and processes, far fewer service organizations invest in developing their capacity to innovate.

You can start by using the ideas in this book to challenge your own thinking.

Where do your ideas come from?
Where do you need to inject new ideas to solve the challenges in your job or your organization?
How do you manage your contribution to your organization?

Take the initiative to enhance your capacity to innovate. Develop your skills for innovative thinking and use them.
Become an Idea Factory. Be an Idea Factory.

Some definitions:

Ide'a n.
1. created plan of action; intention
2. way of thinking: being ambitious or rebellious

Fa'ctory n.
1. workshop, buildings and equipment for manufacturing

Ide'a Fa'ctory n.
1. time and place for creating good ideas or for exploring problems, ideas and opportunities
2. approach or philosophy of promoting new ideas and new ways of thinking
3. problem-solving process
4. productive meeting
5. person who harnesses his or her imagination to create new ideas for solving challenges

Some themes in the book

What people need to know about being innovative
Leadership of people; leadership of ideas
Stop killing ideas and the people who create them
Do you attend workshops, take notes, then never look at them again?
Thinking outside the box-and when to not do so
Brainstorming like an idea factory

I am an Idea Factory! Volume 1 is the first in a series of mini books designed to be read and used by people who want to find new ways to solve problems.

Who else in your organization needs to become an idea factory?

Order copies of this book for the staff and executives of your organization.
These mini books would make an ideal incentive gift or giveaway for workshops or conferences.
Managers can distribute copies of these easy-to-read books to all staff and then encourage discussions at team meetings about some of the ideas.

Order your copies now.

For large orders, books can be customized and imprinted with corporate or sponsorship branding. You can add additional pages to capture your specific message. For more information, contact Ed Bernacki at The Idea Factory: info@wowgreatidea.com.