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An excellent book which all executives, senior managers, and career professionals with aspirations should read.
Paul Sloane sets out the clear case for creativity and innovation in business, provides a wealth of practical knowledge and outlines the first steps an organisation can take to think afresh and build a motivated and highly effective team.
Business is too often too serious and another great feature of this book is the series of lateral thinking puzzles. They're fun to have a go at and provide yet more real-world evidence of the value and benefits of using creative thinking for business and professional development.
Read it and use these skills!
Very interesting!
This book will give you many neat tricks that you can use to stimulate your creativity. Our minds are essentially associative machines. Hunger might be associated with tea and cookies or a tasty steak. So when you feel hungry you will automatically direct your thinking patterns towards the objective of getting something to eat. By directing your thoughts you greatly increase your chances of finding a solution. By exploiting this associative nature of our minds we can stimulate our creative thinking. I'll give you an example using one of the methods presented in this book. The idea is to connect following six questions to the problem at hand: Why? Who? Where? How? When? What?
Suppose I were to apply this little technique on this very review! Why am I writing this review? Because writing a review helps me to reflect over all the information that I have learned by reading a book and because I know how entertaining it can be for others to read a good review. Who is going to read my review? People buying this book (they would be making a good decision) and people here on facebook. Where can I put this review so that as many people as possible can read it? Facebook, Amazon, my blog, anywhere else? How can I make my review interesting? Maybe by presenting a highly relevant example of how techniques presented in this book can be applied to a real problem. What would be my rating of this book on a scale 1-5? Definitely a 5!
An excellent tool kit for introducing Lateral Thinking to the workplace
This book is many things in one simple digestible volume. The books primary focus is the steps and environment required to introduce and encourage lateral thinking in the workplace. As its title states the book is about the skills needed for lateral thinking rather then teaching the reader to think laterally. The book comes packed with tools and techniques and has many examples of the power of lateral thinking and the results it has brought. To round the book off it contains a course which is aimed at senior management; the aim of this course is to pull together everything in the book and teach the participants about lateral thinking, it's application and the changes they will need to make to allow lateral thinking to develop in their staff.
The only downside is that whilst the book has many different tools they are not introduced in depth and very few examples of their use is given. Pairing this book with something like Thinkertoys would make for an all round approach.
So if you want create the environment or define the steps for lateral thinking then this book is for you. If you want to learn detailed Lateral thinking methods look elsewhere.
Breaking out of the thinking straitjacket
In Chapter 11, Paul Sloane remarks that 'many of the rules that apply in businesses were set in earlier times and have endured by force of habit'. The main objective of the book is to give the reader tools and tips for becoming a lateral leader and empowering colleagues to challenge these rules, often by thinking the apparently unthinkable. This objective is 100% achieved.
Each Chapter ends with a lateral thinking puzzle to illustrate the importance of 'thinking outside the box' when trying to solve a problem creatively, and with a number of Exercises with titles like Brainstorming, Reverse the Problem and What If?
Perhaps the best examples of the personal habits to be overcome in building a lateral thinking team are the tendency to jump to conclusions, impatience to offer solutions, and reluctance to listen properly to other people's ideas.
The author successfuly shows us how to cast aside the blinkers and find the best answers to even the most intractable problems.
At last, some unconventional wisdom!
At times when management literature abides with dos and donts based on conventional wisdom, here is a powerful defender of the values of unconventional wisdom. Paul Sloane makes a strong case for innovation and lateral thinking in business, where doing new, different things in new, different ways is more important than doing the same things more efficiently. The book is rich with examples from the real world where creative thinking and action have led to astonishing successes (even after numerous failed attempts)and examples where conservatism and conventional thinking have led to obsolescence or catastrophe. The author argues that creative skills can and should be developed at the individual level, the team level and the company level and the book abounds with tips and techniques to help people and organizations expand their potential for innovation. Lateral thinking puzzles placed at the end of each chapter, help reinforce the fact that we all think "in boxes" with assumptions and preconceptions that do not always correspond to reality. An excellent book.
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