The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills
Powerful Problem-solving Techniques to Ignite Your Team's Potential
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Leadership & Management
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- What techniques and approaches can lead to non-conventional thinking
- How to use them as a leader
Why you should read The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills
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.
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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