The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills : unlocking the creativity and innovation in you and your team
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | Book |
| Language | English |
| Published |
London ; Philadelphia :
Kogan Page,
2006
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| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Obsah Anotace Biografické informace |
| ISBN | 0749447974 978-0-7494-4797-7 |
| Physical Description | vii, 183 s. : il. ; 24 cm |
Cover
Table of Contents:
- 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