The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills

unlock the creativity and innovation in you and your team

3rd Edition.
The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills
Paul Sloane, Paul Sloane
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The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills

unlock the creativity and innovation in you and your team

3rd Edition.

"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 put to work today."--Publisher description.

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Publisher
Kogan Page
Language
English
Pages
194

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The need for innovation
Characteristics of the lateral leader
The innovation test
Laying the foundations for change
Making the vision real
Challenge your assumptions
Ask searching questions
Take a different view
Combine the unusual
Adapt, adopt, improve
Break the rules
Analyse first
Increase the yield
Introduce the random
Evaluate
Implement
Welcome failure
Use the team
Organizing for innovation
Common mistakes
21 great ways to innovate
The lateral leadership course
Appendix 1: Tools and techniques
Appendix 2: Answers to lateral thinking puzzles
References and recommended reading
Index.

Edition Notes

Revised edition of the author's The leader's guide to skills, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-185) and index.

Other Titles
Lateral thinking skills

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
658.4/0714
Library of Congress
HD53 .S57 2017, HD53.S59 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 194 pages
Number of pages
194

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26936718M
ISBN 10
0749481021
ISBN 13
9780749481025, 9780749481032
LCCN
2017021056
OCLC/WorldCat
967502226

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