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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team

Autor Paul Sloane
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2006
With a lively and energetic approach, this highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter 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. You can use lateral thinking to turn your organization around. This book describes how the lateral leader develops the vision, culture and processes that transform a regular business into an innovation hothouse. The book is packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises you can put to work today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780749447977
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

"No modern business leader should be unaware of these insights" --Brian Mcbride, VP Dell Northern Europe

"Rocket fuel for the business brain" --Bill Penn, CEO, Sparx Group

Notă biografică

Paul Sloane

Cuprins

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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


Descriere

In this lively, energetic guide to leadership, highly acclaimed author, trainer, and presenter Sloane shares dynamic techniques that are sure to unleash creative energy and lateral thinking.