Thinking outside the box has become the holy grail for the creative process. An internet search for the term produces 467 million results and another search for book titles with the phrase ...

My three years of research, including 200 interviews, turned into a manifesto of sorts on the “how to” of thinking outside the box. (Thought Revolution , updated version released by Simon ...

My three years of research, including 200 interviews, turned into a manifesto of sorts on the “how to” of thinking outside the box. (Thought Revolution , updated version released by Simon ...

When you think outside the box, you see the same object in a new context. Which, as a classic psych experiment shows, is super hard to do. Here's how.

What does thinking outside the box mean to you and how do you encourage it with your team? The opinions expressed here by Inc.com columnists are their own, not those of Inc.com.

“Thinking outside the box,” has become the annoying phrase we hear in commercials and bad business meetings. It stems from an actual psychological concept called functional fixedness. Funnily ...

However, the participants that were seated outside the box did much better on the RAT than the other two groups. Apparently, something about literally "thinking outside the box" encourages creativity.

By email, Suntae Kim and his co-authors kindly replied to my questions. The "outside" group was positioned right next to the box. Further, a control group of students completed the task with no ...

First You Think Outside the Box, Then You Play In It. The toy has drawn endorsements from figures as different as Dr. Benjamin Spock and Hillary Rodham Clinton.