Books by Dr Ken Hudson
Books to help you create, solve and innovate
I have written 3 internationally published books (Allen & Unwin) that have been published in 9 countries.

The Idea Generator: Tools for Business Growth
(ALLEN & UNWIN, 2007)
A short book of tools to help you and your team to create new ideas. This is a handy, practical book containing 60 ideation tools to help you:
- Generate big, new ideas;
- Create new growth opportunities;
- Improve you performance and your team;
- Sell with more impact and
- Deliver breakthrough leadership results.

The Idea Accelerator: How to Solve Problems Faster Using Speed Thinking
(ALLEN & UNWIN, 2008)
This is a companion book to The Idea Generator and is written in a similar accessible style.
The emphasis is on simple, effective creativity tools that you and a group or team can use quickly to solve problems or generate ideas in more creative ways.

Speed Thinking: How to thrive in a time-poor world:
(ALLEN & UNWIN, 2010)
This book introduces readers to the theory and application of Speed Thinking. It outlines an amazing new approach that anyone can use to generate new ideas and solutions – in minutes!
The Speed Thinking book covers the:
- Insight behind speed thinking
- Magical 9: 2 starting formula
- Speed Thinking 4-step approach and
- How to use Speed Thinking to brainstorm ideas, solve problems and fast-track your success.
- Ideas Blitz is the tool of Speed Thinking
- Soon to be published in China
“I used to like Edward de Bono tips for generating new ideas, however your 6 Switches framework is more accessible, structured and achievable.”
Alexis Haywood, Principal Consultant
Dr Ken writes to help you think differently
Posts to stretch, switch and inspire new ideas & opportunities.
Why The Pitt is Switch Thinking in Action
Have you seen the award winning medical TV series The Pitt? Please do yourself a favour and watch it tonight. It's wonderful, engaging, raw television now in its second season. One of the reasons the new medical drama The Pitt feels so gripping is not just the...
How to make a difference in moments that matter
What if, we think about individual and team performance differently? What if, we focused on individual moments rather than big dramatic actions? And to push this theme, what if we started to think about the idea that some moments are more important than others? And...
How to get unstuck – in minutes!
We all get stuck. Stuck for an idea, stuck in a rut or stuck in our career to name a few stuck situations. And yet, for something that happens to everyone do we really have a fast, simple way to get unstuck? The answer in no, until now? People don’t get stuck because...



