Paul Sloane is een vooraanstaand expert op het gebied van lateraal denken en innovatie in het bedrijfsleven. Hij vertaalt zijn achtergrond in engineering en internationaal leiderschap naar een onderscheidende aanpak voor probleemoplossing en het bevorderen van creativiteit. Zijn werken, die de ontwikkeling van creatief denken en leiderschap onderzoeken, hebben een aanzienlijk wereldwijd bereik bereikt, met meer dan twee miljoen verkochte exemplaren en vertalingen in tal van talen. Via zijn boeken, lezingen en workshops inspireert Sloane individuen en organisaties om nieuwe mogelijkheden te ontdekken en uitdagingen met onconventionele methoden te overwinnen.
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.
Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team - Second Edition
In this lively, energetic guide to leadership, highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter Paul Sloane shares dynamic techniques that are sure to unleash creative energy and lateral thinking. Packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises, the book encourages you to question your assumptions and develop new ideas with a variety of techniques. Lateral thinking puzzles at the end of each chapter illustrate the importance of thinking outside the box.
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.
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!
Harness the power of lateral thinking to develop powerful reasoning techniques, challenge assumptions and help you creatively find unexpected solutions to daily problems.
Rätselspass für Querdenker: unterhaltsame Ratespiele, die die Fähigkeit schulen, gezielt Fragen zu stellen, Schlussfolgerungen zu ziehen - und keinesfalls aufzugeben, bevor die Lösung gefunden wurde.
Rätselspaß für Querdenker: unterhaltsame Ratespiele, die die Fähigkeit schulen, gezielt Fragen zu stellen, Schlußfolgerungen zu ziehen - und keinesfalls aufzugeben, bevor die Lösung gefunden wurde.
Rätselspaß für Querdenker: unterhaltsame Ratespiele, die die Fähigkeit schulen, gezielt Fragen zu stellen, Schlußfolgerungen zu ziehen - und keinesfalls aufzugeben, bevor die Lösung gefunden wurde.
