Paul Sloane

MA, C. Eng.

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Creativity, Lateral Thinking and Innovation Leadership Expert

Paul Sloane Quick Facts

Main Areas: Innovation, Creativity, Leadership, Lateral Thinking, Puzzles
Best Sellers: Lateral Thinking Puzzlers, The Leaders Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills
Career Focus: Author, Speaker, Course leader
Affiliation: Head of the Innovation Unit at the British Quality Foundation

Paul Sloane speaks, writes, leads workshops and facilitates meetings for clients around the world. He is the author of How to be a Brilliant Thinker and The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills. He has also written a series of books of lateral thinking puzzles. His books have sold over 2 million copies. He is an expert on creativity, lateral thinking and innovation.

Paul Sloane graduated from Cambridge University with a first in Engineering. He came top of Sales School in IBM and went on to be part of the team that launched the IBM PC in the UK. He was Marketing Director and then Managing Director at Ashton-Tate UK. He became VP International for MathSoft and was CEO of Monactive Ltd.

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Sample chapter from the Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills

http://destination-innovation.com/SampleChapter.pdf

Keynote Address flyer

http://destination-innovation.com/Destination%20Innovation%20Talk.pdf

Creative Selling Workshop

http://destination-innovation.com/Creative%20Selling%20Talk.pdf

Free Audio & Video Samples

Paul Sloane on Youtube - Sales Conference

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xIYWpbSkrfM

Weird Combinations

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yaOEsII7xug

Paul Sloane on Youtube - studio clip

http://youtube.com/watch?v=drXuICjGNhg&feature=related

Paul Sloane Books

How to be a Brilliant Thinker

http://www.amazon.com/How-Brilliant-Thinker-Exercise-Solutions/dp/0749455063/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266946308&sr=1-1

The Innovative Leader

http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0749450010/ref=s9_asin_title_1/104-9473339-1450313?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1FPYVG86YD5D23VDQCHR&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=288448401&pf_rd_i=507846

Lateral Thinking Puzzlers

http://www.amazon.com/Lateral-Thinking-Puzzlers-Paul-Sloane/dp/0806982276/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213880362&sr=1-1

Cunning Lateral Thinking Puzzles

http://www.amazon.com/Cunning-Lateral-Thinking-Puzzles-Puzzle/dp/1402732759/ref=pd_sim_b_1

How to Generate Ideas - eBook

http://79.170.44.110/destination-innovation.com/zen-cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=12&zenid=1njrglqh3l4e36fmqmf0ua0ii2

The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills

http://www.amazon.com/Leaders-Guide-Lateral-Thinking-Skills/dp/0749447974/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b

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How to Think what Nobody Else Thinks

How can you think of things that no-one else thinks of? The answer is by deliberately taking a different approach to the issue from everyone else. There are dominant ideas in every field. The brilliant thinker purposefully challenges those dominant ideas in order to think innovatively. Albert ...

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The Six Reasons You're Not Fulfilling Your Potential

Very few people can claim that they have achieved all that they are capable of. In the Western world most of us do moderately well. We get an education and a succession of jobs; we have some relationships that work; we are well fed; we avoid penury and destitution. We can take comfort in ...

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Your Ideal Elevator Pitch

How would you describe to a stranger what your organisation does? When you meet someone at a social or networking event and they ask about your company what do you say? Take a moment to write down how you would portray your organisation in one sentence. Many people give very bland statements or quote from their company mission or advertising tag lines. The elevator pitch is a phrase coined to describe the situation where you meet someone important in an elevator and have just the duration of the elevator ride to tell him or her what your business is and why it is special.

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What Business Are We In?

The CEO of Black and Decker once said, ‘People don’t go into a DIY store because they need one of our drills. They go because they need a hole in the wall.’ Wonderbra in their internal communications to staff say this, ‘We do not sell underwear. We do not sell lingerie. What we sell is self-confidence for women.’ Harley Davidson does not sell motorbikes. It sells the concept of freedom to middle-aged men. What is it that your business really sells? What is the true value that customers get from your products or services?

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Tell Stories

We live in a world with information overload. We are flooded with data, facts, statistics and information in all forms. Definitive answers to specific questions are immediately available from search engines on the internet. But people want more than facts. They want understanding. They want meaning. They want context. They want stories. Children ask their parents to tell them stories because they like to fit the pieces of the story into a context they can understand. It is the same with adults. Audiences at conferences do not want to be bombarded with data and figures.

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Seven Great Questions to ask at a Job Interview

If you are going for an interview as a prospective employee then you should do some research. Read the job description and requirements carefully. Browse the web site to see how the organization presents itself. Search for news items and comments about the company on news sites and blogs. For the interview itself you should dress smartly and appropriately. It is important to have some questions prepared and here are a few that could really help: 1. What exactly would my day-to-day responsibilities be?

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Great Ways to Become Poor and Stay Poor

Nobody plans to become poor and yet a great many people end up poor. Here are some of the best known ways of ensuring a life of penury: 1. ‘We don’t need no education…’ If you drop out of school or fail to achieve a basic education then you will severely restrict your chances of employment. What is more it is difficult to acquire further skills if you lack the basic ones. However this method does not guarantee poverty as there are some exceptional people who, because of sheer hard work or innate ability, succeed despite little formal education. 2.

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How to Get Promoted at Work

If you work in a large organization and are ambitious for career progression then here are a number of things that you can do to assist your journey. 1. Do your job well. I know that this is stating the obvious but it is the starting point. For promotion it is a necessary but not a sufficient requirement that you perform your current duties diligently. Many people think that this is all they need to do and that the rewards, recognition and promotion will follow. Corporate life is not ‘fair’ in this sense. Many people do great work and are passed over.

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Six Great Ways To Ruin A Brainstorm.

The brainstorm (or thought shower as some people now call it) is the most popular group creativity exercise in business. It is quick, easy and it works. But many organizations have become frustrated with brainstorms and have stopped using them. They say brainstorms are old-fashioned and no ...

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Games for Thinkers

Thinkers relish the challenge and stimulation of brilliant games. They enjoy games for the pure thrill of exercising their minds and judgements in pursuit of victory. You can take pleasure in any number of great games. Here is a selection of recommended pastimes. Add them to your Christmas ...

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Letter to a Teenage Daughter

Dear Daughter, You are a wonderful person and your mother and I think the world of you. It will not be long before you leave home to make your way in the world. Can I please give you some friendly advice? Here are some things that I think you should never do. 1. Never Despise Yourself. You ...

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How to Tell a Joke

Many people shy away from telling jokes because they once told one that fell flat or they are afraid of appearing silly or of offending someone. Jokes are canned humorous stories which are subtly different from personal anecdotes. With personal anecdotes you have the authority to tell them ...

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Destination Innovation

Paul Sloane helps people to boost their creativity, lateral thinking and innovation. He is an author, speaker and expert facilitator. The website shows our Creative Leadership Workshops, Ideas Workshops, Facilitated Creativity sessions, Keynote and after-dinner Talks.

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