Normal situations veer off into the bizarre, confounding and surreal, and it's left to you to figure it out. Welcome to the world of perplexing lateral thinking puzzles. The puzzles are great fun to solve yourself, but they also make perfect party games providing hours of debate and discussion. 96 pages, 20 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Perplexing lateral thinking puzzles

Humor & Entertainment

Sloane, Paul

Puzzles & Games

Scholastic. Inc.

optical illusions, crosswords, card tricks, mysteries, games, etc.

The Little Giant Book of After School Fun

Anderson, Doug

Bullimore, Tom

Barry, Sheila Ann

scholastic

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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Powerful Problem-Solving Techniques to Ignite Your Team's Potential

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Kogan Page Business Books

In this lively, energetic guide to leadership, highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter Paul Sloane shares dynamic techniques that are sure to unleash creative energy and lateral thinking. Packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises, the book encourages you to question your assumptions and develop new ideas with a variety of techniques. Lateral thinking puzzles at the end of each chapter illustrate the importance of thinking outside the box.

The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team

Kogan Page.

The Innovative Leader: How to Inspire your Team and Drive Creativity

The Innovative Leader is written to address, in a practical way, the questions of innovation that managers face: How can managers transform employees from cubicle dwellers into innovation warriors? Where can the ideas come from to fuel the supply of innovation? How does one find the time and resources to try new ideas? Sloane stresses the competitive advantage of innovation and creativity in modern business. He shows how to apply methods of innovation and creativity to the individual, to business peers, and to the organization. Paul Sloane demonstrates the importance of setting out one's vision clearly, and he emphasizes the need for continual evaluation of the process. Through numerous international examples he illustrates how organizations such as Virgin, Body Shop, Disney, and 3M have benefited from this approach, encouraging excellence and entrepreneurship through challenging goals that keep employees motivated and engaged.

How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions

Leading speaker on innovation and creativity Paul Sloane helps readers think in powerful new ways. It shows how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation, and other areas to become more creative. Readers will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve their memory, sell their ideas, and win arguments. The book is packed with practical methods to put to immediate use, backed up by exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics, and illustrations.

Self-Help

Creativity

Open innovation and crowdsourcing are among the hottest topics in strategy and management today. The concept of capturing ideas in a hub of collaboration, together with the outsourcing of tasks to a large group of people or community is a revolution that is rapidly changing business culture. A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing explains how to use the power of ideas and people outside your organization to turbocharge your innovation. Failure to embrace these approaches could mean getting left behind Written by an international team of the most eminent thinkers, writers and practitioners in the field, it explains: -what open innovation and crowdsourcing are -how to manage virtual teams and co-create with outsiders -how to handle legal and IP issues -how to get started with open innovation in your business -common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid With corporate case studies and best-practice advice, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing is a vital read for anyone who wants to find innovative products and services from outside their organizations and overcome the practical difficulties that lie in the way.

A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: Advice from Leading Experts in the Field

A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: Expert Tips and Advice

Lateral thinking can help you transform your ability to generate ideas, unlock the creative potential of your team and make your organization more innovative. With a lively, energetic and practical approach, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills will teach you dynamic, up-to-date techniques to unleash the creative energies of your people and show you how to put the techniques to work immediately. Lateral thinking can turn your organization around and make you a better leader. 
In The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter Paul Sloane demonstrates how the lateral leader develops the vision, culture and processes that transform a regular business into an innovation hothouse. This book is packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises that you can put to work today.

The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlock the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team

These complicated conundrums provide an amazing brain workout. To solve a lateral-thinking problem you have to throw out assumptions, think out of the box, and look at the clues from a new perspective. It’s all a matter of training the brain to think more creatively. Here’s an example of one tricky little mystery: A foreign visitor to London wanted to ride up the escalator at the subway station, but did not do so. Why? Could you guess the reason is that he saw a sign saying “Dogs must be carried”—and he didn’t have a dog! At first, you may think you don’t have all the information needed to arrive at the answers, but persist and you’ll find the answers to them all.

Lateral Logician

Harshman, Edward J.

MacHale, Des

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

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