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The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills
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The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills

Powerful Problem-solving Techniques to Ignite Your Team's Potential

Paul Sloane
Kogan Page, 2003

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Recommendation

Obviously, innovation, creativity and new ideas are important in business. Author Paul Sloane offers a number of techniques and practices to encourage the generation and development of new ideas. He says little startlingly new, but he offers leaders a handy, practical guide to the well-trodden paths of brainstorming, tolerance of failure and leadership by example. The most enjoyable part of the book is the long list of dunderheaded quotations from experts in various fields declaring that such innovations as submarines, nuclear power, railroads and steamships are impossible. getAbstract recommends this book because it will encourage you to question your assumptions and to look for places where conventional wisdom is probably wrong – there's certainly no harm, and a great deal of good, in that.

Take-Aways

  • Innovation depends on the flow of ideas.
  • To encourage ideas, do not criticize or disparage them.
  • Force yourself to think unconventionally. Make a random list of products, services, situations and companies, and pair your major product or service with each.

About the Author

Paul Sloane is the founder of Destination Innovation. He is the author of 10 books on lateral thinking and problem solving.

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