Lateral thinking can help you transform your ability to generate ideas, unlock the creative potential of your team and make your organization more innovative. With a lively, energetic and practical approach, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills will teach you dynamic, up-to-date techniques to unleash the creative energies of your people and show you how to put the techniques to work immediately. Lateral thinking can turn your organization around and make you a better leader.
In The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter Paul Sloane demonstrates how the lateral leader develops the vision, culture and processes that transform a regular business into an innovation hothouse. This book is packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises that you can use today.
By:
Paul Sloane,
Paul Sloane
Imprint: Kogan Page
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9780749481025
ISBN 10: 0749481021
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 03 September 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: The Need for Innovation; Chapter - 02: Characteristics of the Lateral Leader; Chapter - 03: The Innovation Test; Chapter - 04: Laying the Foundations for Change; Chapter - 05: Making the Vision Real; Chapter - 06: Challenge Your Assumptions; Chapter - 07: Ask Searching Questions; Chapter - 08: Take a Different View; Chapter - 09: Combine the Unusual; Chapter - 10: Adopt, Adapt, Improve; Chapter - 11: Break the Rules; Chapter - 12: Analyse First; Chapter - 13: Increase the Yield; Chapter - 14: Introduce the Random; Chapter - 15: Evaluate; Chapter - 16: Implement; Chapter - 17: Welcome Failure; Chapter - 18: Use the Team; Chapter - 19: Organizing for Innovation; Chapter - 20: Common Mistakes - Great Ways to Crush Creativity; Chapter - 21: 21 Great Ways to Innovate; Chapter - 22: Summary; Chapter - 23: The Lateral Leadership Course
Paul Sloane is an experienced speaker, course leader and facilitator. A recognized authority on innovation and creative speaking, he speaks and gives workshops to leading corporations around the world. He is also the best-selling author of How to Be a Brilliant Thinker, The Innovative Leader and editor of A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing, all published by Kogan Page.
Reviews for The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlock the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team
If you are only going to read one business book this year, this is the one. No modern business leader should be unaware of these insights * Brian McBride, VP Northern Europe, Dell Computer Corporation * Sloane delivers rocket fuel for the business brain * Bill Penn, CEO, Sparx Group * Every leader should embrace lateral thinking. Every leader should embrace this book * Ajaz Ahmed, CEO, AKQA * This book teaches leaders how to transform creativity into meaningful innovation * Shawn Javid, CEO, Insightful Inc * In this book, Paul Sloane shows you how to achieve your innovation goals through lateral thinking skills and exercises. Practical, readable and critical for leaders of every type of organization * Whatify Magazine * For executives looking to blast their conscious minds into orbit, galactic thinker Edward de Bono offers a hyperlink to the edge of space. For those of us content to do business on planet earth, Paul Sloane is fast becoming the number one guide. * Eurobusiness *
