1. The document discusses how chaos often precedes great changes and encourages the reader to create chaos in order to enable change. 2. It provides several quotes about creativity, innovation, and the need for new approaches and thinking outside the box. 3. The document lists several books and resources on topics like creativity, innovation, breakthrough thinking, and humor. It also provides contact information for the author.

1. Creating ChAos!
Tathagat Varma
http://managewell.net
13-14 Jan 2012

2. All great changes
are preceded by
chaos.
- Deepak Chopra

4. When in Rome
Mexico, do as
Romans Mexicans
do!
Really?

6. The second assault on
the same problem
should come from a
totally different direction
– Tom Hirshfield,
Physicist

7. If you are not prepared
to be wrong, you will
never come up with
anything original
– Sir Ken Robinson,
Creativity Expert, “Schools
Kill Creativity”, TED2006

8. If at first the idea is
not absurd, then
there is no hope for
it!
- Einstein

9. Intelligence and knowledge teach us the
right answer. Creativity guides us to find
multiple right answers.

12. A Prototype is worth
thousand ideas!
– Jeffrey Philips, Innovation Excellence

13. " ...While our short-term survival requires routine, our
long-term survival has required significant change. -
Steve Lundin
" If you do what you have always done, you will get
what you have always got!
" A chaos might be needed before a change. Create
it!

14. " A Whack on the Side of the Head, Roger von Oech, HarperCollins, 1999
" Breakthrough Thinking, Nick Souter, Sterling, 2007
" Cats - The Nine Lives of Innovation, Stephen Lundin, McGraw Hill, 2009
" It’s not how Good you are, it’s how Good you want to be, Paul Arden,
Phaidon, 2003
" Leading Innovation, Brian McDermott and Gerry Sexton, Nova Vista, 2004
" The Importance of Possibili, Edward de Bono, Westland, 2003
" Whatever you Think, Think the Opposite, Paul Arden, Portfolio, 2006

15. • Incorrect Predictions
• Schools Kill Creativity, Sir Ken Robinson, TED2006
• The Global Innovation Index 2011
• Using Humor to boost Creativity, Paul McGhee
• Why this Kolaveri Kolaveri Kolaveri Di?, Tathagat Varma
• Top 7 Roadblocks to Innovation, Tathagat Varma

16. Twitter: @tathagatvarma
Blog: http://managewell.net
Email: tathagat.varma@gmail.com
Presentations: http://slideshare.net/managewell