Michalko, Michael, 1940- Thinkertoys : : a handbook of business creativity for the '90s / [electronic resource] / Michael Michalko.. — Berkeley, Calif. : : Ten Speed Press,, c1991.. — 335 p. : : ill. ; 23 cm.
1. Original spin -- 2. Mind pumping -- 3. Challenges -- 4. Thinkertoys -- 5. False faces : reversal -- 6. Slice and dice : attribute listing -- 7. Cherry split : fractionation -- 8. Think bubbles : mind mapping -- 9. SCAMPER : questions -- 10. Tug-of-war : force-field analysis -- 11. Idea box : morphological analysis -- 12. Idea grid : FCB grid -- 13. The toothache tree : diagramming -- 14. Phoenix : questions -- 15. The Great Transpacific Airline and Storm Door Company : matrix -- 16. Future fruit : future scenarios -- 17. Brutethink : random stimulation -- 18. Hall of fame : forced connection -- 19. Circle of opportunity : forced connection -- 20. Ideatoons : pattern language -- 21. Clever Trevor : talk to a stranger -- 22. Chilling out : relaxation -- 23. Blue roses : intuition -- 24. The three B's : incubation -- 25. Rattlesnakes and roses : analogies -- 26. Stone soup : fantasy questions -- 27. Color bath : creative visualization -- 28. Dreamscape : dreams -- 29. Da Vinci's technique : drawing -- 30. Dali's technique : hypnogogic imagery -- 31. No Kansas : imagery -- 32. The shadow : psychosynthesis -- 33. The book of the dead : hieroglyphics -- 34. Brainstorming -- 35. Rice storm : TKJ -- 36. Worrywillie's guide to prioritizing -- 37. Murder board -- 38. Backbone.