From the September 2011 issue of Investment Advisor • Subscribe!
August 24, 2011  Create Like Leonardo, Innovate Like Edison
Need to differentiate? By studying what made da Vinci and Edison
great, advisors can teach themselves to be more creative and
innovative  Have you ever wished you could think as creatively
as Leonardo da Vinci, who designed a flying machine, invented
musical instruments and painted the Mona Lisa? Or that you could
turn innovative ideas into profitable reality like Thomas
Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park, who developed the light bulb,
phonograph and movie camera?  If so, Michael Gelb has some
suggestions for you.  Gelb has extensively studied how “genius
thinking” applies to personal and organizational development. In
1998, he published his analysis of Leonardo’s brilliance in the
best-selling “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps
to Genius Every Day.” In 2007, he expanded the field of creative
thinking with “Innovate Like Edison: The Five-Step System for
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