The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, 3rd Edition: Unlock the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team

by Paul Sloane

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 put to work today.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Management, Leadership, Reference

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First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Paul Sloane read Engineering at Trinity Hall Cambridge. He came top of Sales School at IBM, became MD of Ashton-Tate UK, VP International for MathSoft and CEO of Monactive. He now writes, speaks and gives workshops on lateral thinking in business, creativity, innovation and leadership. He is married and lives in Camberley in Surrey. He has three grown-up daughters. He is a keen chess and tennis player and he plays keyboards in a rock band, the Fat Cats. He has written a series of lateral thinking puzzle books, many co-authored with Des MacHale, published by Sterling Publishing. They have sold over 2 million copies and been translated into many languages. He has also written two management books, published by Kogan Page, and many articles for blogs and websites. He manages the Lateral Puzzles Forum where puzzlers can set and solve lateral puzzles.

Reviews

[Mattias Altin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favourite books in recent time!

[kartik narayanan · Rating 2 out of 5]

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Most companies are built for continuous improvement, rather than for discontinuous innovation.

What is the book about?

“The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills” is written by Paul Sloane, author of many books on lateral thinking and management.

“The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills” is a book whose goal is to give us the lateral tools and techniques to transform our organization into a powerhouse of innovation. Lateral Thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono, is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic

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[Toan Ho Huu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ngày nay, nhiều CEO, giám đốc và quản lý cấp cao tập trung hơn vào việc cải tiến hiệu suất kinh doanh, với mong muốn thúc đẩy công việc vận hành trơn tru hơn và dịch vụ cung cấp cho khách hàng được tốt hơn. Họ làm việc hết sức chăm chỉ và nghĩ rằng mình đang làm rất tốt, nhưng thực tế chưa hẳn là như vậy. Bởi lẽ, cải thiện từng bước trong kinh doanh là không đủ. Ngoài việc nâng cao chất lượng hoạt động kinh doanh hiện tại, người lãnh đạo cần phải dành thời gian tìm kiếm những cách thức hoàn toàn mới nhằm đáp ứng nhu cầu của khách hàng. Họ nên lựa chọn, áp dụng những cách thức khác biệt và tốt hơn, giúp công ty đạt được các mục tiêu trong quá trình hoạt động. Họ nên khởi xướng những sáng kiến mới mẻ, táo bạo, dù cho thực tế một số sẽ thất bại và một số khác sẽ thành công. Nhưng hơn hết, họ phải khuyến khích, trao quyền cho nhân viên, chấp nhận áp dụng những phương pháp liều lĩnh và sáng tạo để tận dụng những cơ hội mới.

[WRM2 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was excited to read this book, but it didn't deliver. It was full of quotes, examples and and stories of Jack Welch, Alexander Graham Bell, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Intel, etc. Authors need to stop regurgiating these stories. So few books these days have orginal content and this is one of them. As I was reading it, I found my mind saying "please stop repeating these same old tired stories. How many more times will I need to read these *@ examples? Write something original!!!".

Edward de Bono wrote about how to unlock your creativity using lateral thinking. This author wrote about how to be completely unorginal.

[Alireza Hejazi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book aims to provide leaders with a set of skills to help them think creatively and generate innovative ideas. It is structured around a series of case studies, each of which highlights a particular lateral thinking technique and provides examples of how it can be applied to different situations. It is a useful resource for leaders who are looking to develop their creativity and problem-solving skills. Its practical focus and well-chosen case studies make it a valuable addition to any leader’s toolkit. Business leaders and managers interested in learning innovative and creative ways of thinking may benefit from the book’s content significantly.

[Nuruli Khaliq · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ada cerita lucu dengan buku ini.
Buku ini saya beli waktu di S'pore pas jalan bareng istri, beberapa bulan after married. Biasanya kalo ke S'pore (my favorite place), saya kudu musti beli "sesuatu" yang bikin saya happy, namun kali ini gak banyak yang saya dapatkan. Walhasil saya ambil aja beberapa buku sekedar buat oleh-oleh, mostly management books karena profesi saya yang konsultan manajemen.

To be honest, sepulangnya buku ini gak pernah benar-benar saya baca, hanya beberapa halaman aja, dan tersimpan rapi bersama buku2 manajemen lainnya yang belon pernah terbaca.

Sampai kepada suatu saat saya mendapat pekerjaan di konsultan asing yang sedang menangani BNI, otomatis saya spend much more time in the bus untuk sampai ke BNI Dukuh Atas. Mulailah saya gunakan waktu di bus untuk "membayar hutang" buku-buku saya tadi, ini terjadi pada tahun 2006, 3 tahun kemudian.

Ternyata.... isi buku ini remarkable, dan saya menyesal telat membacanya. Buku ini berisi bagaimana kita dapat menghasilkan keputusan melalui tindakan yang "diluar jalur pikiran orang biasa", memaksa kita untuk benar-benar "think out of the box" ... secara drastis.

Lateral Thinking sangat recommended buat mencari terobosan-terobosan baru.

Positifnya lagi, memaksa saya membaca buku-buku yang belum sempat saya baca, takut kehilangan kesempatan itu

[Sambasivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Essential reading in today's vuca world. Innovation has now become a need for survival and this classic gives you golden nuggets in every single page to light the fire in you.

[Clifton Franklund · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of ideas. A bit disjointed in presentation.