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A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
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A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative Paperback - 2008

by Roger Von Oech

Praised by business people, educators, and scientists for 25 years, this book has been stimulating creativity in millions of readers. This updated anniversary edition is filled with even more provocative puzzles, exercises, questions, and tips designed to unlock creative thinking.


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Exercise: In my seminars, I like to start the participants off with the following exercise.

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  • Title A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
  • Author Roger Von Oech
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 25 Anv Rev
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York - Boston
  • Date 2008-05-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780446404662 / 0446404667
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.67 x 0.66 in (20.96 x 14.40 x 1.68 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Success - Psychological aspects, Creative thinking
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007932389
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153.35

About the author

Roger von Oech is the president of Creative Think, a California-based consulting firm that has conducted creativity seminars with such companies as American Express, Apple Computer, AT&T, CBS, IBM, NBC, and NASA. He earned his doctorate from Stanford University in a self-conceived program in the history of ideas.
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