Tim Hurson Quotes

Tim Hurson is a speaker, writer and creativity theorist living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in New York City, USA. He is now a Canadian citizen. He was educated at The Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, and went to college at Oberlin College in Ohio.Hurson was a founding partner of Manifest Communications, a company focussed on social change strategy. He was its president until selling the company in 1996. After working independently for several years, he became a founding partner of ThinkX Intellectual Capital.Hurson developed a problem-solving technique known as the ThinkX Productive Thinking Model, a six-step process that builds on the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process, combining it with more rigorous engineering-based techniques such as IDEF.Hurson is a founding director of Facilitators Without Borders, a faculty member of the conference of the Creativity European Association. and co-founder of Mindcamp. He is a founding board member of Oberlin College's LaunchU Entrepreneurship bootcamp. Wikipedia  

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Famous Tim Hurson Quotes

“As in any discipline, to become good you need first to learn the rules. To become great, you need to break them.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“We tend to overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

Tim Hurson Quotes about ideas and thoughts

“The only dumb idea is, quite literally, the one that is unspoken.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

Tim Hurson Quotes about thinking

“One of the major barriers to productive thinking is the almost compulsive drive in most business organizations to be right.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

Tim Hurson Quotes

“Training, as practiced in much of corporate America, is an astonishing waste of resources.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“Often the true causes of our discomfort are so integral to our environment that we fail to recognize them.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

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