Lateral Thinking for Every Day

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 bestselling 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