The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills
Subtitle: unlock the creativity and innovation in you and your team
By: Paul Sloane
Contributors: Sloane, Paul, 1950-
Edition: 3rd Edition.
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780749481025; 9780749481032
Subjects: Creative ability in business; Management; Lateral thinking
Other titles: Lateral thinking skills
Description: "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.
Notes: Revised edition of the author's The leader's guide to skills, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: The need for innovation; title: Characteristics of the lateral leader; title: The innovation test; title: Laying the foundations for change; title: Making the vision real; title: Challenge your assumptions; title: Ask searching questions; title: Take a different view; title: Combine the unusual; title: Adapt, adopt, improve; title: Break the rules; title: Analyse first; title: Increase the yield; title: Introduce the random; title: Evaluate; title: Implement; title: Welcome failure; title: Use the team; title: Organizing for innovation; title: Common mistakes; title: 21 great ways to innovate; title: The lateral leadership course; title: Appendix 1: Tools and techniques; title: Appendix 2: Answers to lateral thinking puzzles; title: References and recommended reading; title: Index.