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Product Identifiers

PublisherKogan Page, The Limited

ISBN-100749481021

ISBN-139780749481025

eBay Product ID (ePID)235137441

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

Publication NameLeader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills : Unlock the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team

LanguageEnglish

SubjectLeadership, Personal Success, Management, Creativity

Publication Year2017

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSelf-Help, Business & Economics

AuthorPaul Sloane

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0 in

Item Weight11.3 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number3

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2017-021056

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsFor executives looking to blast their conscious minds into orbit, galactic thinker Edward de Bono offers a hyperlink to the edge of space. For those of us content to do business on planet earth, Paul Sloane is fast becoming the number one guide., 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, In this book, Paul Sloane shows you how to achieve your innovation goals through lateral thinking skills and exercises. Practical, readable and critical for leaders of every type of organization

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal658.4092

Table Of Content** Chapter - 00: Introduction; ** Chapter - 01: The Need for Innovation; ** Chapter - 02: Characteristics of the Lateral Leader; ** Chapter - 03: The Innovation Test; ** Chapter - 04: Laying the Foundations for Change; ** Chapter - 05: Making the Vision Real; ** Chapter - 06: Challenge Your Assumptions; ** Chapter - 07: Ask Searching Questions; ** Chapter - 08: Take a Different View; ** Chapter - 09: Combine the Unusual; ** Chapter - 10: Adopt, Adapt, Improve; ** Chapter - 11: Break the Rules; ** Chapter - 12: Analyse First; ** Chapter - 13: Increase the Yield; ** Chapter - 14: Introduce the Random; ** Chapter - 15: Evaluate; ** Chapter - 16: Implement; ** Chapter - 17: Welcome Failure; ** Chapter - 18: Use the Team; ** Chapter - 19: Organizing for Innovation; ** Chapter - 20: Common Mistakes - Great Ways to Crush Creativity; ** Chapter - 21: 21 Great Ways to Innovate; ** Chapter - 22: Summary; ** Chapter - 23: The Lateral Leadership Course

SynopsisImprove your lateral thinking skills, boost the creativity of your team and kick start innovation in your organisation., 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 use today., 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., 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 use today.

LC Classification NumberHD53.S59 2017