Applied Imagination
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Applied Imagination is an influential{{Cite web |url=https://www.inc.com/melissa-schilling/the-science-of-why-brainstorming-in-groups-doesnt-work.html |title = Why Brainstorming Groups Kill Breakthrough Ideas (And What to do Instead) |date=2018-02-09 |first=Melissa |last=Schilling |work=Inc. }} 1953 book on creative ideation by Alex Faickney Osborn, in which he introduces the technique of brainstorming.{{cite web |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3063855/work-smart/youre-probably-not-brainstorming-long-enough |title=You're Probably Not Brainstorming Long Enough |date=2016-09-22 |publisher= |first=Neil |last=Pavitt |work=Fast Company }}{{cite web |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3004450/alex-osborn-bob-sutton-meeting-minds-build-better-brainstorm |title=From Alex Osborn To Bob Sutton: A Meeting Of The Minds To Build A Better Brainstorm |date=2013-01-15 |publisher= |work=Fast Company |first=Anya |last=Kamenetz }}{{cite journal |url=https://hbr.org/2016/01/resolving-the-paradox-of-group-creativity |title=Resolving the Paradox of Group Creativity |journal=Harvard Business Review |date=2016-01-25 |last1=Walton |first1=Andre }}{{cite journal |last=Wentworth |first=Robert B. |date=1955 |journal=Journal of Marketing |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1248180 |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=97–99 |doi=10.2307/1248180 |title=Review: Applied Imagination by Alex F. Osborn |jstor=1248180 |url-access=subscription }}
Chapters
- The all-importance of imagination
- Indispensability of creativity in science
- Careers depend largely on creativity
- Creativity in leadership and professions
- Imagination can improve personal relations
- Universality of imaginative talent
- Ways by which creativity can be developed
- Our new environment - its effect on creativity
- Other factors that tend to cramp creativity
- Creative and non-creative forms of imagination
- The process of ideation vary widely
- Orientation calls for setting our sights
- Preparation and analysis go hand in hand
Editions
- Osborn, Alex F. (1953). Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem Solving. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. {{OCLC|641122686}} {{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/641122686 |title=Applied imagination; principles and procedures of creative thinking. |first=Alex F. |last=Osborn |date=2018-05-11 |publisher=Scribner |oclc=641122686 |via=Open WorldCat }}
- Revised edition, New York, Scribner, 1957 {{OCLC|1381383}}
- 3rd ed. New York C. Scribner 1963 {{OCLC|757425639}}
- French translation by Georges Rona and Pierre Dupont, L'Imagination constructive. Principes et processus de la Pensée créative et du Brainstorming, Paris, Dunod, 1959.
- Chinese translation by Ikkō Shō, 応用想像力 Taipei : Kyōshi Kōgyō Sōsho Shuppan Kofun Yūgen Kōshi, 1965 {{OCLC|673537763}}