The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Powerful Problem-solving Techniques to Ignite Your Team's Potential

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Kogan Page Publishers, 2003 - 186 pages
Praise and Reviews `If you are only going to read one business book this year, this is the one. No modern business leader should be unaware of these insights.`BRIAN MCBRIDE, VP Northern Europe, Dell Computer Corporation`Sloane delivers rocket fuel for the business brain.`BILL PENN, CEO, Sparx Group`Every business should embrace lateral thinking. Every leader should embrace this book.`AJAZ AHMED, CEO, AKQA`This book teaches leaders how to transform creativity into meaningful innovation.`SHAWN JAVID, CEO, Insightful Inc.Do you want to unlock the creative potential of your team?Is innovation a core value for your organization?Do you have the skills to inspire new ideas?Do you know how lateral leadership can transform your organization?Leadership is not just about command and control - it is about inspiring your team to make the vision a reality by conceiving and implementing creative solutions they never thought possible.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.
 

Contents

Characteristics of the lateral leader
11
Laying the foundations for change
19
Making the vision real 28
28
Contents
36
Take a different view
55
Adapt adopt improve
68
Increase the yield
81
Use the team 90
99
Organizing for innovation
107
12 great ways to crush creativity
117
Summary
124
The lateral leadership course
131
Exercises
150
Answers to lateral thinking puzzles
172
Further reading
181
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Paul SloanePaul Sloane is the founder of Destination Innovation (www.destination-innovation.com). He was a top salesman with IBM, UK, MD of Ashton-Tate, VP International for MathSoft Inc and CEO of Monactive. Clients for his presentations and workshops include Vodafone, GlaxoSmithKline, Phillip Morris, IBM, Equant, BT, Prudential and L`Oreal. He is the author of 10 books on lateral thinking puzzles and problem-solving and has written many articles on the subject.

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