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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills
Unlock the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team
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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.
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Table of contents
- 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
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- 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
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