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You are here The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team
The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.40714
EAN: 9780749447977
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 0749447974
Label: Kogan Page
Manufacturer: Kogan Page
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 183
Publication Date: November 28, 2006
Publisher: Kogan Page
Studio: Kogan Page
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"No modern business leader should be unaware of these insights," Brian Mcbride, VP Northern Europe, Dell "Rocket fuel for the business brain," Bill Penn, CEO, Sparx Group In this lively, energetic guide to leadership, highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter Paul Sloane shares dynamic techniques that are sure to unleash creative energy and lateral thinking. Packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises, the book encourages you to question your assumptions and develop new ideas with a variety of techniques. Lateral thinking puzzles at the end of each chapter illustrate the importance of thinking outside the box.
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Quite by chance, I read The Leader's Guide To Lateral Thinking by Paul Sloane over the weekend. What stood out in that book for me is - you won't find anything new if you look hard in the same direction.
I thought the examples used in it were quite powerful, since I still remember them. One is the fish bowl example (separating the small fish from the one large fish that eats them with a glass partition) - that the brain becomes complacent after a while and stops questioning. The other ... Read More
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Obviously, innovation, creativity and new ideas are important in business. Author Paul Sloane offers a number of techniques and practices to encourage the generation and development of new ideas. He says little startlingly new, but he offers leaders a handy, practical guide to the well-trodden paths of brainstorming, tolerance of failure and leadership by example. The most enjoyable part of the book is the long list of utterly dunderheaded quotations from experts in various fields declaring that such ... Read More
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At times when management literature abounds with dos and donts based on conventional wisdom, here is a powerful defender of the values of unconventional wisdom. Paul Sloane makes a strong case for innovation and lateral thinking in business, where doing new, different things in new, different ways is more important than doing the same things more efficiently. The book is rich with examples from the real world where creative thinking and action have led to astonishing successes (even after numerous failed ... Read More
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This book is short, sweet, and to the point. It serves as an easy read to introduce a variety of individuals with different backgrounds, disciplines, and responsibilities, to key aspects of innovation. Being approachable, the topic is both interesting and appealing. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this myself and have since asked many people to read it to get them up to speed with innovation.
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In Chapter 11, Paul Sloane remarks that 'many of the rules that apply in businesses were set in earlier times and have endured by force of habit'. The main objective of the book is to give the reader tools and tips for becoming a lateral leader and empowering colleagues to challenge these rules, often by thinking the apparently unthinkable. This objective is 100% achieved.
Each Chapter ends with a lateral thinking puzzle to illustrate the importance of 'thinking outside the box' when trying to ... Read More
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