Leader's Guide to Skills Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team

The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills Unlocking the creativity and innovation in you and your team Second edition Paul Sloane "Stimulating and well written" Business Executive REAR COVER: "For executives looking to blast their conscious minds into orbit, galactic thinker Edward de Bono offers a hyperlink to the edge of space. For those of us content to do business on planet earth, Paul Sloane is fast becoming the number one guide." Eurobusiness "If you are only going to read one business book this year, this is the one. No modern business leader should be unaware of these insights." Brian McBride, VP Northern Europe, Dell Computer Corporation "Sloane delivers rocket fuel for the business brain." Bill Penn, CEO, Sparx Group "Every business should embrace lateral thinking. Every leader should embrace this book." Ajaz Ahmed, CEO, AKQA "This book teaches leaders how to transform creativity into meaningful innovation." Shawn Javid, CEO, Insightful Inc Do you want to unlock the creative potential of your team? Is innovation a core value for your organization? Do you have the skills to inspire new ideas? Do you know how lateral leadership can transform your organization? 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 staff. You can use lateral thinking to turn your organization around. The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills 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. Paul Sloane founded the consultancy Destination Innovation (www.destination-innovation.com). He was a top salesman with IBM, UK, Managing Director of Ashton-Tate, Vice President International for MathSoft Inc and CEO of Monactive. Clients for his presentations and workshops include American Express, BT, HP, Lloyds of London, Motorola, Orange, Reckitt Benckiser, Shell and 3M. He is the author of 15 books on lateral thinking puzzles and problem-solving and has written many articles on the subject.Sloane, Paul is the author of 'Leader's Guide to Skills Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team', published 2006 under ISBN 9780749447977 and ISBN 0749447974.