Lateral Thinking for Every Day: Extraordinary Solutions to Ordinary Problems

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