Paul Sloane Knihy

Logic is not enough! To unravel a lateral puzzle, you have to train your brain to think differently. Ranging from (relatively) easy to fiendishly hard, these classic conundrums - almost 100 of them - require mental agility.

Enhance lateral thinking abilities to foster creativity within your team and stimulate innovation in your organization. This book provides practical strategies and exercises designed to unlock new perspectives and problem-solving techniques, encouraging a culture of innovative thinking.

Presents advice to companies on using crowdsourcing as a means of finding innovative ideas and products, covering management issues, liabilities, and the common mistakes that can occur when creating products with outside resources.

Find out how good you are at lateral thinking. Improve your skills--and even raise your I.Q.-- by taking on these puzzles specially chosen for this collection. They will help you master the four keys to lateral thinking: testing assumptions, asking the right new questions, trying new ways to solve, using logic to test the new solutions. 96 pages, 20 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Sloane stresses the importance of innovation and creativity in modern business to help organizations secure competitive advantage over rivals. He also demonstrates the importance of setting out a clear vision and the need for continual evaluation of the process.

Focusing on problem-solving and creativity, this guide offers techniques to enhance thinking skills and break free from conventional patterns. Readers will learn to retrain their brains, discover innovative ideas, and adopt powerful strategies for effective thinking, ultimately leading to improved decision-making and idea generation.

They're challenging, baffling, and wildly entertaining: here are 240 colorful, mind-boggling puzzles of every kind to sharpen anyone's thinking skills! Vivid optical illusions fool and tease the eye: try to find both a young girl and her grandmother in what seems to be a picture of only one woman. Or test those smarts on a different type of visual problem by figuring out which of six pieces isn't needed to make a cube. Sneaky lateral thinking puzzles are so tricky that there are extra clues to help: look at them first and then solve the riddle of why a tourist in London wouldn't ride the escalator in the subway station--even though he wanted to. It takes really creative reasoning to solve clever logic conundrums, including mathematical enigmas from the "addled arithmetician" and mini-mysteries to delight the armchair detective. And lots more stimulating fun!

Harness the power of lateral thinking to develop powerful reasoning techniques, challenge assumptions and help you creatively find unexpected solutions to daily problems.

This book is filled with classic brainteasers, featuring bite-size puzzles that will test your wits in a variety of ways, featuring math puzzles, wordplay, logic, lateral thinking, visual puzzles, and more! They're the perfect accompaniment to a coffee break (or any other kind of break), posing challenges that are quick but satisfying.