TY - BOOK AU - Fisher,Roger AU - Sharp,Alan AU - Richardson,John TI - Lateral leadership: getting it done when you are not the boss SN - 9781861977236 (pbk.) U1 - 658.40714 23 KW - Creative ability in business KW - Lateral thinking KW - Management KW - Leadership N1 - Revised edition of the author's The leader's guide to skills, 2009; Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The need for innovation -- Characteristics of the lateral leader -- The innovation test -- Laying the foundations for change -- Making the vision real -- Challenge your assumptions -- Ask searching questions -- Take a different view -- Combine the unusual -- Adapt, adopt, improve -- Break the rules -- Analyse first -- Increase the yield -- Introduce the random -- Evaluate -- Implement -- Welcome failure -- Use the team -- Organizing for innovation -- Common mistakes -- 21 great ways to innovate -- The lateral leadership course -- Appendix 1: Tools and techniques -- Appendix 2: Answers to lateral thinking puzzles -- References and recommended reading -- Index ER -