The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills

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Improve 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.
New to this edition: brand new content on attracting and retaining creative team members, how random input can improve lateral thinking and important case studies of lateral thinking in action at Uber and AirBnB
Contains several practical activities to boost creativity that leaders can try out immediately, including lateral thinking puzzles, new brainstorming techniques, self-evaluation checklists, questioning exercises and action lists
Challenges conventional approaches and describes new ways of thinking to help leaders (and their teams) boost their ability to be creative and generate more innovative ideas
Is the only book on lateral thinking on the market that is specifically aimed at business leaders

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Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane is an experienced speaker, course leader and facilitator. A recognised authority on innovation and creative speaking, he speaks and gives workshops to leading corporations around the world. He is also the best-selling author of How to Be a Brilliant Thinker, The Innovative Leader, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills and editor of A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing, all published by Kogan Page.

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"Every leader should embrace lateral thinking. Every leader should embrace this book"
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"This book teaches leaders how to transform creativity into meaningful innovation"
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"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"
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