Paul Sloane est une autorité reconnue en matière de pensée latérale et d'innovation dans le monde des affaires. Il transpose son expérience en ingénierie et en leadership international dans une approche distinctive de la résolution de problèmes et de la promotion de la créativité. Ses œuvres, qui explorent le développement de la pensée créative et du leadership, ont atteint une portée mondiale significative, se vendant à plus de deux millions d'exemplaires et étant traduites dans de nombreuses langues. À travers ses livres, ses conférences et ses ateliers, Sloane inspire les individus et les organisations à découvrir de nouvelles possibilités et à surmonter les défis avec des méthodes non conventionnelles.
Add a little math to your lateral thinking! Paul Sloane and Des MacHale, the crown princes of lateral thinking, have provided a cool twist to test solvers skills. They present you with mathematical conundrums . . . but instead of requiring brute calculating power, each puzzle relies upon a clever insight or unexpected shortcut. Youll get a brain-busting workout youll never forget!
Unlock the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team
Enhance lateral thinking abilities to foster creativity within your team and stimulate innovation in your organization. This book provides practical strategies and exercises designed to unlock new perspectives and problem-solving techniques, encouraging a culture of innovative thinking.
Logic is not enough! To unravel a lateral puzzle, you have to train your brain to think differently. Ranging from (relatively) easy to fiendishly hard, these classic conundrums - almost 100 of them - require mental agility.
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 put to work today.
Presents advice to companies on using crowdsourcing as a means of finding innovative ideas and products, covering management issues, liabilities, and the common mistakes that can occur when creating products with outside resources.
Find out how good you are at lateral thinking. Improve your skills--and even raise your I.Q.-- by taking on these puzzles specially chosen for this collection. They will help you master the four keys to lateral thinking: testing assumptions, asking the right new questions, trying new ways to solve, using logic to test the new solutions. 96 pages, 20 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
Sloane stresses the importance of innovation and creativity in modern business to help organizations secure competitive advantage over rivals. He also demonstrates the importance of setting out a clear vision and the need for continual evaluation of the process.
Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions
Focusing on enhancing problem-solving and idea generation, this guide offers techniques to break free from conventional thought patterns. Readers will learn to retrain their brains and adopt powerful thinking strategies, empowering them to approach challenges with creativity and innovation.
They're challenging, baffling, and wildly entertaining: here are 240 colorful, mind-boggling puzzles of every kind to sharpen anyone's thinking skills! Vivid optical illusions fool and tease the eye: try to find both a young girl and her grandmother in what seems to be a picture of only one woman. Or test those smarts on a different type of visual problem by figuring out which of six pieces isn't needed to make a cube. Sneaky lateral thinking puzzles are so tricky that there are extra clues to help: look at them first and then solve the riddle of why a tourist in London wouldn't ride the escalator in the subway station--even though he wanted to. It takes really creative reasoning to solve clever logic conundrums, including mathematical enigmas from the "addled arithmetician" and mini-mysteries to delight the armchair detective. And lots more stimulating fun!
Extraordinary Solutions to Ordinary Problems
This book focuses on lateral thinking, offering techniques to enhance reasoning and creativity. It encourages readers to challenge their assumptions and approach problems from unique angles, leading to innovative solutions for everyday challenges. By applying these strategies, individuals can unlock their potential for creative problem-solving.