Michael Michalko Imagineer

Author Profile	Michael Michalko is a leading creativity expert who leads creative-thinking workshops, seminars, and think-tank sessions for clients around the world. His involvement in the field began when, as an officer in the U.S. Army, he oragnised an elite team of NATO intelligence specialists and academics to research, collect and categorize all known inventive-thinking methods. His team applied these methods to various military, intelligence and political problems and produced a variety of breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to new and old problems. After leaving military service, Michael applied these creative-thinking techniques to problems in government and the corporate world with outstanding success, and his instruction, seminars, and creative-thinking workshops have proved highly popular with corporations, governments, and associations around the world. Some of this techniques were first made public in the best-selling Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Business Creativity. Michael lives and works in the peaceful hamlet of Churchville, New York, with his wife, Anne, an accomplished artists, his dog, Percy, and his best friend, Jack the cat. More details on the author are available, including contact information.
Books	The following books are published by Ten Speed Press (PO Box 7123, Berkeley, CA 94708. Phone 800-841-BOOK. More details of these books are available here on the Creativity Web. Thinkertoys Thinkpak - A Brainstorming Card Deck Cracking Creativity - The Secrets of Creative Genius. The introduction to this book is available - "A Theory about Genius".
Articles and Interview	Article about Thomas Edison Interview with Charles Cave in September 1998. Interview by Future Times - May 1998 Business Start-Ups - 1998.
Web Site	Michael Michalko has his own web site at www.creativethinking.net

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Last Updated: Saturday, 9th November 1998