The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills : unlocking the creativity and innovation in you and your team / Paul Sloane.
By: Sloane, Paul
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BookPublisher: London : Kogan Page, 2006Edition: 2nd ed.Description: vii, 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0749447974; 9780749447977.Subject(s): Creative ability in business | Lateral thinking | ManagementDDC classification: 658.40714 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
With a lively and energetic approach, this highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter 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. You can use lateral thinking to turn your organization around.This book describes how the lateral leader develops the vision, culture and processes that transform a regular business into an innovation hothouse. The book is packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises you can put to work today.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-175) and index.
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 -- Evaluate -- Implement -- Welcome failure -- Use the team -- Organizing for innovation -- Common mistakes: 12 great ways to crush creativity -- Summary -- The lateral leadership course.
CIT Module MECH 8009 - Supplementary reading
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. viii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 The need for innovation (p. 4)
- The challenge of change (p. 4)
- Change, creativity and innovation (p. 6)
- Lateral thinking (p. 7)
- Lateral thinking puzzles (p. 9)
- 2 Characteristics of the lateral leader (p. 10)
- 3 The innovation test (p. 14)
- 4 Laying the foundations for change (p. 18)
- Recognizing the need for change (p. 18)
- Painting the vision (p. 19)
- Communicating (p. 23)
- Tips for setting and communicating the vision (p. 24)
- 5 Making the vision real (p. 26)
- Empowering (p. 26)
- Trust (p. 27)
- Overcoming fear (p. 28)
- Staying focused (p. 29)
- Planning and preparation (p. 30)
- Managing the environment (p. 31)
- Using innovation techniques (p. 32)
- Tips for making the vision a reality (p. 32)
- 6 Challenge your assumptions (p. 34)
- Tips for challenging assumptions (p. 38)
- 7 Ask searching questions (p. 42)
- Imagination and knowledge (p. 45)
- Creating a questioning organization (p. 46)
- Tips for asking questions (p. 46)
- 8 Take a different view (p. 50)
- Visual links (p. 53)
- Tips for adopting a different point of view (p. 55)
- 9 Combine the unusual (p. 57)
- Weird combinations are sometimes the strongest (p. 59)
- Tips for forcing combinations (p. 60)
- 10 Adapt, adopt, improve (p. 62)
- Tips for finding ideas you can adopt and adapt (p. 65)
- 11 Break the rules (p. 67)
- Look at the rules in your business (p. 71)
- Tips for breaking the rules (p. 73)
- 12 Analyse first (p. 74)
- Fishbone analysis (p. 75)
- Why, Why? (p. 77)
- Lotus blossom (p. 78)
- Cogitate (p. 80)
- 13 Increase the yield (p. 81)
- Tips for increasing the yield (p. 83)
- 14 Evaluate (p. 84)
- Harvest the field (p. 84)
- Evaluation: the gating process (p. 86)
- 15 Implement (p. 90)
- Prototyping (p. 91)
- Implementation priorities (p. 92)
- 16 Welcome failure (p. 95)
- Accidents will happen - so make the most of them (p. 96)
- Tips for welcoming failure (p. 99)
- 17 Use the team (p. 100)
- Training (p. 103)
- Tips for using the team (p. 103)
- When to go outside - using the external team (p. 104)
- Tips for using external sources of ideas (p. 106)
- 18 Organizing for innovation (p. 107)
- The challenge for smaller enterprises (p. 107)
- How the larger enterprise should prepare (p. 109)
- Measuring creativity (p. 112)
- Tips for organizing for innovation (p. 114)
- 19 Common mistakes: 12 great ways to crush creativity (p. 116)
- Criticism (p. 116)
- Neglecting brainstorms (p. 117)
- Problem hoarding (p. 117)
- Efficiency over innovation (p. 118)
- Overworking (p. 118)
- It isn't in the plan (p. 119)
- Laying the blame (p. 119)
- Wrong rewards (p. 119)
- Outsourcing change (p. 120)
- Promotion from within (p. 120)
- Giving innovation projects to production units (p. 121)
- No training (p. 121)
- 20 Summary (p. 122)
- The magic sentence (p. 124)
- Checklist (p. 124)
- Lateral leadership in action (p. 127)
- 21 The lateral leadership course (p. 129)
- The participants (p. 130)
- Phase I Icebreakers and energizers to start (p. 131)
- Phase II Brainstorming to start the flow (p. 132)
- Phase III The vision and its components (p. 132)
- Phase IV Creative exercises (p. 135)
- Phase V Strategy, goals and objectives (p. 137)
- Phase VI Questioning exercises (p. 140)
- Phase VII Communications plan (p. 140)
- Phase VIII Staff issues and empowerment (p. 141)
- Phase IX Competitive and product workshop (p. 141)
- Phase X Innovation process and gating plan (p. 142)
- Phase XI Summary and action list (p. 143)
- Phase XII Follow-up session (p. 143)
- Appendix 1 Tools and techniques (p. 145)
- Appendix 2 Answers to lateral thinking puzzles (p. 167)
- References and recommended reading (p. 172)
- Index (p. 177)