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

“Preliminary ideas are often weak and impure, and need to be driven through a forge in order to become powerful, workable solutions.”

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

“In my experience one of the most common causes for programs, products, and change initiatives that don't work is that the wrong question has been asked.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“Sometimes it's just not practical to go through the effort of creating a new solution when an existing solution will do the job almost as well.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“Even though you may have started out saying you wanted imaginative, novel ideas, the tendency to drift back into the conventional is powerful.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

Tim Hurson Quotes about ideas and thoughts

“As soon as you establish concrete intention, you begin to notice all kinds of things in your world that relate to that intention. Ideas and opportunities seem to appear from nowhere, almost as though by magic.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

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

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“When you try to generate ideas, think of yourself as a sales person knocking on a whole subdivision of doors. Some won't open at all, some will open a suspicious crack, and some will slam in your face. But the more doors you knock on, the greater your chances of being invited in.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“Ideas are mutable. They are always capable of growing. Each time we look at them, we can see something new. We just need to give ourselves permission to do so.”

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

“If things weren't messy, or getting messy, there would be no discontent, and you wouldn't need productive thinking in the first place.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“We think the more detailed and exhaustive our plans, the more likely the future will actually mirror our vision. But it rarely even comes close.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

Tim Hurson Quotes

“Giving ourselves permission to imagine allows us to access a huge resource of cognitive capacity that we often ignore.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“But as important as it is to see what's going on, it's unlikely that merely understanding the situation will do much to improve it. If you're interested in change, you need to develop a sense of possibility.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“In the heat of the moment, it can be all too easy to generate solutions that take on a life of their own, without reference to the core values of the people developing them or those expected to implement them.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“If you let it, your mind will celebrate new stimuli by automatically making dozens of unexpected connections for you. If you pay attention to them, you may discover the answer you've been looking for.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“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

“Unless a potential future incorporates a powerful emotional pull, it will have great difficulty overcoming the gravitational pull of the past.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“No matter how dysfunctional the present, no matter how sensible the reasons for change, most people and organizations would rather wring out the old than ring in the new.”

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

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