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area. My experience tells me that it’s helpful early on in this self-
development process to take a quick personal inventory of your cur-
rent state of creativeness.

SELF-ASSESSMENT FOR SELF-IMPROVEMENT

How potent is your idea power? Are you and/or your people able to
come up with an abundance of tremendously creative ideas when you
need them with little effort or pain? Dozens of ideas? Hundreds of
ideas? Thousands of ideas? Well, there’s a lot more method to this
madness than most people realize (or perhaps, madness to the
method). And it’s surprisingly easy to accomplish.
To help make this learning process more meaningful and therefore
more effective for you individually, here are some self-diagnostic tools.

The 2-minute Creative IQ Test, page 238. (Or for a more interactive
version go to www.Do-It-YourselfLobotomy.com/book.) By
“Creative IQ” I mean your imagination quotient. I have devel-
oped this assessment tool to help people determine the areas in
which they are already strong creatively and those that need
improvement—and how much. This quick little test, taken by
thousands of people, has been developed and refined based on
a great deal of feedback. It’s the most popular page at my web
site. I have gotten hundreds of comments from people telling
me how they have used this little tool to better understand
their creative strengths and weaknesses so they can take charge
of their self-improvement in this area. I suggest you take this
short test before you get too far along in the book. The assess-
ment will help you focus on the chapters that will benefit you
most.
The 2-minute Organizational Creative IQ Test, page 246. (Or go to
www.Do-It-YourselfLobotomy.com/book.) This quick diagnos-
tic tool is for assessing the creative health of the people in your
organization as a group. If you’re a manager reading this book as
much to help you bring out creativity in the people you supervise
as for your own professional and personal development, this little
test is well worth a look. It will help you better understand areas
that need to be worked on at an organizational level, whether they
be team, department, division, or company.