The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills :
Sloane, Paul, 1950-
The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills : unlock the creativity and innovation in you and your team / Lateral thinking skills Paul Sloane. - Third Edition. - x, 194 pages ; 23 cm
Revised edition of the author's The leader's guide to skills, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 -- Adapt, adopt, improve -- Break the rules -- Analyse first -- Increase the yield -- Introduce the random -- Evaluate -- Implement -- Welcome failure -- Use the team -- Organizing for innovation -- Common mistakes -- 21 great ways to innovate -- The lateral leadership course -- Appendix 1: Tools and techniques -- Appendix 2: Answers to lateral thinking puzzles -- References and recommended reading -- Index.
9780749481025 (pbk.)
2017021056
Creative ability in business.
Lateral thinking.
Management.
HD53 / .S634 2017
658.4/0714
The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills : unlock the creativity and innovation in you and your team / Lateral thinking skills Paul Sloane. - Third Edition. - x, 194 pages ; 23 cm
Revised edition of the author's The leader's guide to skills, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 -- Adapt, adopt, improve -- Break the rules -- Analyse first -- Increase the yield -- Introduce the random -- Evaluate -- Implement -- Welcome failure -- Use the team -- Organizing for innovation -- Common mistakes -- 21 great ways to innovate -- The lateral leadership course -- Appendix 1: Tools and techniques -- Appendix 2: Answers to lateral thinking puzzles -- References and recommended reading -- Index.
9780749481025 (pbk.)
2017021056
Creative ability in business.
Lateral thinking.
Management.
HD53 / .S634 2017
658.4/0714