The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team
Autor Paul Sloaneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2006
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0749447974
Pagini: 183
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Kogan Page
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Recenzii
"Rocket fuel for the business brain" --Bill Penn, CEO, Sparx Group
Notă biografică
Cuprins
1.The need for innovation
The challenge of change; Change, creativity and
innovation; Lateral thinking; Lateral thinking
puzzles
2.Characteristics of the lateral leader
3.The innovation test
4.Laying the foundations for change
Recognizing the need for change; Painting the
vision; Communicating; Tips for setting and
communicating the vision
5.Making the vision real
Empowering; Overcoming fear; Staying
focused; Planning and preparation;
Managing the environment; Using innovation
techniques; Tips for making the vision a
reality
6.Challenge your assumptions
Tips for challenging assumptions
7.Ask searching questions
Imagination and knowledge; Creating a
questioning organization; Tips for asking
questions
8.Take a different view
Visual links; Tips for adopting a different point
of view
9.Combine the unusual
Weird combinations are sometimes the strongest;
Tips for forcing combinations
10.Adapt, adopt, improve
Tips for finding ideas you can adopt and adapt
11.Break the rules
Look at the rules in your business; Tips for
breaking the rules
12.Analyse first
Fishbone analysis; Why, Why?; Lotus blossom;
Cogitate
13.Increase the yield
Harvest the field; Tips for increasing the yield
14.Harvest the field
Evaluation: the gating process
15.Implement
Prototyping; Implementation priorities
16.Welcome failure
Accidents will happen – so make the most of them;
Tips for welcoming failure
17.Use the team
Training; Tips for using the team; When to go
outside – using the external team; Tips for using
external sources of ideas
18.Organizing for innovation
The challenge for smaller enterprises; How the
larger enterprise should prepare; Measuring
creativity; Tips for organizing for innovation
19.Common mistakes: 12 great ways to crush creativity
Criticism; Neglecting brainstorms; Problem
hoarding; Efficiency over innovation;
Overworking; It isn’t in the plan; Laying the
blame; Wrong rewards; Outsourcing change;
Promotion from within; Giving innovation
projects to production units; No training
20.Summary
The magic sentence; Checklist; Lateral
leadership in action
21.The lateral leadership course
The participants; Phase I: Icebreakers and
energizers to start; Phase II: Brainstorming to
start the flow; Phase III: The vision and its
components; Phase IV: Creative exercises;
Phase V: Strategy, goals and objectives;
Phase VI: Questioning exercises; Phase VII:
Communications plan; Phase VIII: Staff issues and
empowerment; Phase IX: Competitive and product
workshop; Phase X: Innovation process and gating
plan; Phase XI: Summary and action list;
Phase XII: Follow-up session