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    7 Tips for Getting Your Team to Think More Creatively

    The pros share what works for them. Read and learn.
    by Matt Villano Apr 01, 2015 6 minutes
    David Hayes

    Creative thinking is a tough act to pinpoint—it is, at the same time, highly specific and wonderfully simple. Which is to say that it can be hard to practice and engineer. All companies try, of course. Some succeed only to the extent that their culture allows; others, especially those helmed by forward-thinking entrepreneurs, manage over time to inculcate creativity into their very fabric of being. 

    Within the context of these divergent realities, insiders agree that creative people in business share some highly effective habits. After talking with a variety of business leaders, we boiled down these suggestions to a list of seven can’t-miss tips to facilitate creativity. Somewhere, Steve Jobs is smiling.

    1. Take time to ruminate.

    Innovative concepts need to germinate and mature. For this reason, one of the most efficient ways to engender creativity is to simply give people time and space to think.

    “When I need to go deep and ideate, I turn my car into a mobile office and work out of parking garages. I work in Los Angeles; we have so many of them. There’s no internet connection

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