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Roger von Oech's 'Creative Think' home page
Merlin Mann | May 14 2005
Visit the home page for his Menlo Park consultancy, “Creative Think.” Reload for a new “Oblique Strategies“-like tip for enhanced creativity, problem solving clues, or what Roger has called “a whack on the side of the head.” Here’s one I liked:
Smart move also to put free, useful, fun content on your business’s home page (instead of the usual “mission statement,” “best of breed” spiel). Very cool. 6 Comments
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 Looks like he's incorporated his...Submitted by Crystal (not verified) on May 15, 2005 - 12:16pm.
Looks like he's incorporated his "Whack Pack" onto his front page. They're an excellent tool that I find myself returning to in both my writing and in the marketing work that I do. The Creative Whack Pack is a very cool deck of cards that you can whip out whenever you need a new creative strategy to help you with what you are doing. Similar in ways to the "Oblique Strategies" but with more detail. Plus its also interesting how the timeline for Whack and Oblique are similar and were, I'm sure, developed very independently from each other. von Oech first published "A Whack on the Side of the Head" in 83, about the same time that Eno & Schmidt were coming up with their cards. I'm always fascinated by how people can come up with similiar findings and ideas simultaneously yet unbeknownst to each other. » POSTED IN:
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