Business Creativity: Dr. YKK Quotes
by: Dr. YKK
Business Creativity is one of the little treasures Dr. YKK has put together in his quotes series. Dr. YKK has collected insights, observations and thoughts about business creativity from respected business leaders around the globe that will "unzip your mind." Sources include, for example, Peter Drucker, Frank Lloyd Wright and John F. Kennedy.
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want to achieve and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
—General George Patton
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
—Walt Disney
“One of the nicest things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imagination”
—Steve Allen
“Having fun unleashes creativity. It is one of the seeds you plant to get ideas.”
—Jack Foster
“The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re atheist, pretend how God would do it.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright
“The innovative company understands that innovation starts with an idea and ideas are somewhat like babies – they are born small, immature, and shapeless.”
—Peter Drucker
“The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility… Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they’re playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they’re critical and faultfinding. And finally they’re doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.”
—Roger von Oech
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange, then you and I still each have an apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each one of us will have two ideas.
—George Bernard Shaw
"The Empires of the future are the Empires of the mind."
—Winston Churchill
Excerpted from Business Creativity: Dr. YKK Quotes (http://www.penmarin.com/proddetail.asp?prod=YKK06&from=ALL) by Dr. YKK, Ph.D. (Penmarin Books, http://www.penmarin.com).
About The Author:
Dr. YKK
Yew Kam Keong, Ph.D. (Dr. YKK) is the CEO and "Chief Mind Unzipper" of Mindbloom, a firm that provides services in creativity training and consultancy to clients such as the government of Malaysia and the famous Danish toy company, Lego.
Dr. YKK is father of four wonderful and lovely children, two girls and two boys.
He was one of eight international creativity advisors Lego hired to spearhead a global non-profit project called The Next Generation Forum to promote creativity in the children of the world.
Dr. YKK has created many programs for parents, teachers and children to promote creativity and inventions, amoung are:
Creative parenting workshops
Students invention workshops
Young inventors camp
He was the founder and president of the Invention and Design Association of Sarawak (IDEAS), founding member of Malaysian Mensa, founder member of the Malaysian Invention and Design Society (MINDS) and a former advisor to the president of the International Federation of Invention Associations (IFIA) based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. YKK presents papers at international conventions, delivers keynote addresses to professional organizations and senior business executives, conducts creativity workshops for companies and public organizations, and gives talks on creative parenting.
March 2006
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