Sloane,Paul

Lateral Thinking Skills: powerful problem-solving techniques to ignite your team's potential - London Kogan Page 2003 - vi,186p. 23cm.

Includes index

Contents:
Acknowledgements.
Introduction
1: The need for innovation
2: Characteristics of the lateral leader
3: The innovation test
4: Laying the foundations for change
5: Making the vision real
6: Challenge your assumptions
7: Ask searching questions
8: Take a different view
9: Combine the unusual
10: Adapt,adopt.improve
11: Change the rules
12: Increase the yield
13: Implement and evaluate
14: Welcome failure
15: Use the team
16: Organizing for innovation
17: Common mistakes:12 great ways to crush creativity
18: Summary
19:The lateral leadership course
Index

The book describe how the lateral leader develops the vision,culture and process that transform a regular business into an innovative hothouse.The book is packed with real-life examples,practicals methods and lateral thinking exercises you can put to work today.

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Creative techniques-Thinking critique

HD 53 SLO 2003