No Limits: Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity

by John C. Maxwell

When you ask creative people to help you, your goal isn’t just to have people come together for a creative think session. Your goal is to have the right people in the meeting. What are the qualities of the right people? Here is what I look for: • Fluency—the ability to generate a number of ideas so that there is an abundance of possible solutions • Flexibility—the ability to produce many different kinds of ideas in varied categories for any given problem • Elaboration—the ability to add to, embellish, or build from an idea • Originality—the ability to create fresh, unique, unusual, or different ideas • Complexity—the ability to drill down and conceptualize difficult, intricate, or multifaceted ideas • Boldness—the willingness to be daring, try new things, and take risks • Imagination—the ability to invent, see, and conceptualize ingenious new ideas • Security—the willingness to appreciate others’ ideas and not protect their own • Values—the ability to think and create in accordance with my values and priorities These are the people who can help you create. Leave out analysts, critics, editors, educators, and implementers. Otherwise the group’s creative wings will be clipped before you are ever given any room to fly.