TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sloane,Paul
TI  - The leader's guide to skills: unlocking the creativity and innovation in you and your team
SN  - 0749447974
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London, Philadelphia
PB  - Kogan Page
KW  - Creative ability in business
KW  - Lateral thinking
KW  - Management
N1  - Author from cover; Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-175) and index; The need for innovation -- Characteristics of the lateral leader -- The innovation test -- Laying the foundations for change -- Making the vision real -- Challenge your assumptions -- Ask searching questions -- Take a different view -- Combine the unusual -- Adapt, adopt, improve -- Break the rules -- Analyse first -- Increase the yield -- Implement -- Welcome failure -- Use the team -- Organizing for innovation -- Common mistakes: 12 great ways to crush creativity -- Summary -- The lateral leadership course -- Appendix 1 Tools and techniques -- A. Brainstorming -- B. Random word -- C. Restate the problem -- D. Similies -- E. Reverse the problem -- F. Break the rules -- G. The worst solution -- H. Idea cards -- I. Found objects -- J. Pass the parcel -- K. Roll the dice -- L. Successive integration -- M. The path to the ideal -- N. Lateral thinking puzzles -- O. The ideal competitor -- P. What if? -- Q. Six serving men -- R. Remote architects -- S. Six thinking hats -- T. Rapid-fire storytelling -- U. Spending 10 -- V. What's on television tonight? -- W. Scamper -- X. Transformers -- Y. Personalities -- Z. The ideas board -- Appendix 2 Answers to lateral thinking puzzles -- References and recommended reading
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