The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team, Second Edition

  • 2h 41m
  • Paul Sloane
  • Kogan Page
  • 2006

With a lively and energetic approach, this highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter 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. You can use lateral thinking to turn your organization around. This book describes how the lateral leader develops the vision, culture and processes that transform a regular business into an innovation hothouse. The book is packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises you can put to work today.

In this Book

  • 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
  • Adopt, Adapt, Improve
  • Break the Rules
  • Analyse First
  • Increase the Yield
  • Evaluate
  • Implement
  • Welcome Failure
  • Use the Team
  • Organizing for Innovation
  • Common Mistakes: 12 Great Ways to Crush Creativity
  • Summary
  • The Lateral Leadership Course
  • References and Recommended Reading
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