Paul Sloane

The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills (eBook, ePUB)

Unlock the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780749481032
• Artikelnr.: 49046492

Autorenporträt

Paul Sloane is the founder of Destination Innovation (www.destination-innovation.com). He was a top salesman with IBM, UK, MD of Ashton-Tate, VP International for MathSoft Inc and CEO of Monactive. Clients for his presentations and workshops include Vodafone, GlaxoSmithKline, Phillip Morris, IBM, Equant, BT, Prudential and L`Oreal. He is the author of The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, also published by Kogan Page.

Inhaltsangabe

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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• • 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

Rezensionen

"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