MTU Cork Library Catalogue

Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills : unlock the creativity and innovation in you and your team / Paul Sloane.

By: Sloane, Paul, 1950- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Kogan Page Ltd, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Third Edition.Description: x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780749481025 (paperback).Other title: Lateral thinking skills.Subject(s): Creative ability in business | Lateral thinking | ManagementDDC classification: 658.40714
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduce the random -- Evaluate -- Implement -- Welcome failure -- Use the team -- Organizing for innovation -- Common mistakes -- 21 great ways to innovate -- The lateral leadership course -- Appendix 1: Tools and techniques -- Appendix 2: Answers to lateral thinking puzzles -- References and recommended reading -- Index.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 use today.

Revised edition of the author's The leader's guide to skills, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduce the random -- Evaluate -- Implement -- Welcome failure -- Use the team -- Organizing for innovation -- Common mistakes -- 21 great ways to innovate -- The lateral leadership course -- Appendix 1: Tools and techniques -- Appendix 2: Answers to lateral thinking puzzles -- References and recommended reading -- Index.

MTU CORK Module MECH 8009 - Supplementary reading.

MTU CORK Module MECH 8010 - Supplementary reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. xi)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • 01 The need for Innovation (p. 5)
  • The challenge of change (p. 5)
  • Change, creativity and innovation (p. 7)
  • Lateral thinking (p. 8)
  • Lateral thinking puzzles (p. 9)
  • 02 Characteristics of the lateral leader (p. 11)
  • 03 The innovation test (p. 15)
  • 04 Laying the foundations for change (p. 19)
  • Recognizing the need for change (p. 19)
  • Painting the vision (p. 20)
  • Communicating (p. 23)
  • Tips for setting and communicating the vision (p. 26)
  • 05 Making the vision real (p. 27)
  • Empowering (p. 27)
  • Trust (p. 28)
  • Overcoming fear (p. 29)
  • Staying focused (p. 30)
  • Planning and preparation (p. 30)
  • Managing the environment (p. 31)
  • Using innovation techniques (p. 33)
  • Tips for making the vision a reality (p. 33)
  • 06 Challenge your assumptions (p. 35)
  • Tips for challenging assumptions (p. 40)
  • 07 Ask searching questions (p. 45)
  • Imagination and knowledge (p. 48)
  • Creating a questioning organization (p. 49)
  • Tips for asking questions (p. 49)
  • 08 Take a different view (p. 53)
  • Visual links (p. 56)
  • Tips for adopting a different point of view (p. 58)
  • Do the opposite (p. 59)
  • 09 Combine the unusual (p. 61)
  • Weird combinations are sometimes the strongest (p. 62)
  • Tips for forcing combinations (p. 64)
  • 10 Adopt, adapt, improve (p. 65)
  • Tips for finding ideas you can adopt and adapt (p. 68)
  • 11 Break the rules (p. 69)
  • Look at the rules in your business (p. 73)
  • Tips for breaking the rules (p. 76)
  • 12 Analyse first (p. 77)
  • Fishbone analysis (p. 78)
  • Why, why? (p. 80)
  • Lotus blossom (p. 81)
  • Cogitate (p. 82)
  • 13 Increase the yield (p. 83)
  • Tips for increasing the yield (p. 85)
  • Iterate to innovate (p. 85)
  • 14 Introduce the random (p. 87)
  • Welcome the unexpected (p. 88)
  • 15 Evaluate (p. 91)
  • Harvest the field (p. 91)
  • Evaluation: the gating process (p. 93)
  • 16 Implement (p. 99)
  • Prototyping (p. 100)
  • 17 Welcome failure (p. 103)
  • Accidents will happen - so make the most of them (p. 104)
  • Tips for welcoming failure (p. 106)
  • 18 Use the team (p. 109)
  • Training (p. 111)
  • Tips for using the team (p. 112)
  • When to go outside: using the external team (p. 112)
  • Tips for using external sources of ideas (p. 114)
  • 19 Organizing for innovation (p. 117)
  • The challenge for smaller enterprises (p. 117)
  • How the larger enterprise should prepare (p. 119)
  • Recruiting lateral thinkers (p. 122)
  • Measuring creativity (p. 124)
  • Tips for organizing for innovation (p. 125)
  • 20 Common mistakes: 12 great ways to crush creativity (p. 127)
  • Criticism (p. 127)
  • Neglecting brainstorms (p. 128)
  • Problem hoarding (p. 128)
  • Efficiency over innovation (p. 129)
  • Overworking (p. 129)
  • It isn't in the plan (p. 130)
  • Laying the blame (p. 130)
  • Wrong rewards (p. 130)
  • Outsourcing change (p. 131)
  • Promotion from within (p. 131)
  • Giving innovation projects to production units (p. 132)
  • No training (p. 132)
  • 21 21 Great ways to innovate (p. 133)
  • 22 Summary (p. 137)
  • The magic sentence (p. 138)
  • Checklist (p. 140)
  • Lateral leadership in action (p. 142)
  • 23 The lateral leadership course (p. 143)
  • The participants (p. 144)
  • Phase I Introductions (p. 144)
  • Phase II Brainstorming to start the flow (p. 145)
  • Phase III The vision and its components (p. 145)
  • Phase IV Creative exercises (p. 149)
  • Phase V Strategy, goals and objectives (p. 149)
  • Phase VI Questioning exercises (p. 152)
  • Phase VII Communications plan (p. 152)
  • Phase VIII Staff issues and empowerment (p. 153)
  • Phase IX Competitive and product workshop (p. 153)
  • Phase X Innovation process and gating plan (p. 154)
  • Phase XI Summary and action list (p. 154)
  • Phase XII Follow-up session (p. 155)
  • Appendix 1 Tools and techniques (p. 157)
  • Appendix 2 Answers to lateral thinking puzzles (p. 179)
  • References and recommended reading (p. 183)
  • Index (p. 187)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Paul Sloane is an experienced speaker, course leader and facilitator. A recognized authority on innovation and creative speaking, he gives workshops to leading corporations around the world. He is also the bestselling author of How to Be a Brilliant Thinker and The Innovative Leader and editor of A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing, all published by Kogan Page.

Powered by Koha