The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills : unlocking the creativity and innovation in you and your team, Paul Sloane

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The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills : unlocking the creativity and innovation in you and your team, Paul Sloane

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unlocking the creativity and innovation in you and your team

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Paul Sloane

Instantiates

• The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills : unlocking the creativity and innovation in you and your team

Publication

• London, Kogan Page, 2006

Note

• Previous ed.: 2003
• Formerly CIP

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

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 -- Change the rules -- Increase the yield -- Implement and evaluate -- Welcome failure -- Use the team -- Organising for innovation -- Common mistakes - 12 great ways to crush creativity -- Summary -- The lateral leadership course -- Appendix I Exercises and techniques -- A. Brainstorming -- B. Random word -- Restate the problem -- Similies -- E. Reverse the problem -- F. Break the rules -- G. The worst solution -- H. Idea cards -- Found objects -- J. Pass the parcel -- K. Roll the dice -- Successive integration -- The path to the ideal -- N. Lateral thinking puzzles -- O. The ideal competitor -- P. What if? -- Q. Six serving men -- R. Remote architects -- S. Six thinking hats -- T. Rapid-fire storytelling -- U. Spending 10 -- What's on TV tonight? -- Appendix II Answers to puzzles -- Appendix III Recommended reading

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000040134007

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24 cm.

Edition

2nd ed.

Extent

vii, 183 p.

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9780749447977

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(pbk.) :

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ill.

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u72380