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Paul Sloane is an experienced speaker, course leader and facilitator, based in Surrey, UK. A recognized authority on innovation and creative speaking, he speaks and gives workshops to leading corporations around the world. He is also the best-selling author of How to Be a Brilliant Thinker, The Innovative Leader and editor of A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing, all published by Kogan Page. Chapter – 01: What is lateral thinking and why do you need it?; Chapter – 02: Example – Steven Spielberg and Jaws; Chapter – 03: Challenge your assumptions; Chapter – 04: Some lateral thinking puzzles to get you thinking; Chapter – 05: How to use De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats to improve meetings and decisions; Chapter – 06: Lateral ways to succeed at interview; Chapter – 07: Ask smarter questions; Chapter – 08: Clever riddles; Chapter – 09: So you think you are open-minded; Chapter – 10: Lateral memory improvement techniques; Chapter – 11: Sometimes it pays to be outrageous; Chapter – 12: Games which promote creativity and lateral thinking; Chapter – 13: Example – Sidney Bernstein and Granada TV; Chapter – 14: More lateral thinking puzzles; Chapter – 15: Analyse problems first – The fishbone method; Chapter – 16: Example – The founding of Google; Chapter – 17: A Lateral thinking method – The Random Word; Chapter – 18: Lateral thinking in the office – How to get noticed and promoted; Chapter – 19: How to succeed with study and exams – Tips for students; Chapter – 20: The Disney Method for creative ideas; Chapter – 21: Lateral thinking and mathematics – With some puzzles; Chapter – 22: Example – Hannibal crossing the Alps; Chapter – 23: Lateral Thinking in art; Chapter – 24: Sneaky tricks in sports; Chapter – 25: More memory methods; Chapter – 26: Using Six Serving Men to understand problems; Chapter – 27: Lateral Rock Stars – Bowie, Mercury, Madonna, Lady Gaga; Chapter – 28: How to take a different point of view; Chapter – 29: Become a brilliant conversationalist; Chapter – 30: How lateral thinking can improve relationships; Chapter – 31: Wacky Word Puzzles; Chapter – 32: Use an Outsider Mindset; Chapter – 33: Clever Ways to Appear Smarter than you are!; Chapter – 34: Try Weird Combinations; Chapter – 35: What if the opposite were true?; Chapter – 36: Fire up your Imagination with these exercises; Chapter – 37: Lateral Inventors; Chapter – 38: Take advantage of accidents; Chapter – 39: Sometimes think like a criminal; Chapter – 40: When the world Zigs, Zag; Chapter – 41: The Power of Silly Questions; Chapter – 42: The Greatest Bluff; Chapter – 43: Move the Kettle!; Chapter – 44: Don’t be a Zebra, be a Giraffe!; Chapter – 45: Beware these Cognitive Biases
