The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills
The key elements of creating a truly innovative and entrepreneurial organization can be summarized in the following eight steps:
1. Paint an inspiring vision.
2. Build an open, receptive, questioning culture.
3. Empower people at all levels.
4. Set goals, deadlines and measurements for innovation.
5. Use creativity techniques to generate a large number of ideas.
6. Review, combine, filter and select ideas.
7. Prototype the promising proposals.
8. Analyze results and roll out the successful projects.
(Source: Sloane, Paul. The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills: powerful problem-solving techniques to ignite your team's potential. London ; Sterling, VA : Kogan Page, 2003. p. 3)
1. Paint an inspiring vision.
2. Build an open, receptive, questioning culture.
3. Empower people at all levels.
4. Set goals, deadlines and measurements for innovation.
5. Use creativity techniques to generate a large number of ideas.
6. Review, combine, filter and select ideas.
7. Prototype the promising proposals.
8. Analyze results and roll out the successful projects.
(Source: Sloane, Paul. The leader's guide to lateral thinking skills: powerful problem-solving techniques to ignite your team's potential. London ; Sterling, VA : Kogan Page, 2003. p. 3)
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