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Paul Sloane

Professional Keynote Speaker, Author, Innovation Expert

Paul Sloane is founder and CEO of Destination Innovation, a professional keynote conference speaker, and expert facilitator on innovation and lateral thinking. His workshops have helped hundreds of companies solve their business issues through improving idea generation and creative leadership. He has published 25 books on lateral thinking puzzles, innovation, leadership and problem solving with over 2 million copies sold.

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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 ba

Think Laterally

Lateral thinking is a phrase coined by Edward de Bono as a counterpoint to conventional or vertical thinking. In conventional thinking we go forward in a predictable, direct fashion. Lateral thinking involves coming at t

Ask Questions

Children learn by asking questions. Students learn by asking questions. New recruits learn by asking questions. It is the simplest and most effective way of learning. People who think that they know it all no longer ask

Expand Your Verbal Intelligence

The most common method of thinking in the Western world is verbal thinking.Although we have a range of intelligences including numerical, musical, spatial, emotional, verbal and kinaesthetic intelligences, it is verbal i

Six Great Ways to Ruin a Brainstorm

The brainstorm is the most popular group creativity exercise. 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-fashi