title: The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlock the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team
author:  Paul Sloane 
description: "Sloane delivers rocket fuel for the business brain" (<i>Bill Penn, CEO, Sparx Group</i>)<br /><br />"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." (<i>Eurobusiness</i>)<br /><br />"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" (<i>Brian McBride, VP Northern Europe, Dell Computer Corporation</i>)<br /><br />"In this book, Paul Sloane shows you how to achieve your innovation goals through lateral thinking skills and exercises. Practical, readable and critical for leaders of every type of organization" (<i>Whatify Magazine</i>)<br /><br />"Every leader should embrace lateral thinking. Every leader should embrace this book" (<i>Ajaz Ahmed, CEO, AKQA</i>)<br /><br />"This book teaches leaders how to transform creativity into meaningful innovation" (<i>Shawn Javid, CEO, Insightful Inc</i>)
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  Lateral
  Thinking
  Skills
  The Leader’s Guide to
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  The leader’s guide to lateral thinking skills
  Powerful problem-solving techniques to ignite your team’s
  potential
  Paul Sloane
  
  This work is dedicated to my wife Ann and daughters
  Jacqueline, Valentina and Hannah whose understanding and
  support are much appreciated.
  First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2003 by Kogan Page Limited 
  Reprinted in 2003, 2004 (twice)
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