Paul Sloane

Gathers word problems that involve using the imagination to explain a seemingly inexplicable situation

Lateral Thinking Puzzlers

Think Like An Innovator ePub eBook

Innovation can take you from failure to success, but if you need a helping hand then Think Like An Innovator can help you. With over 70 different leaders, innovators and business people, each covered in 500 words or less, you'll find out: · Who they are – a brief bio about the person · Their Challenge – the issue they faced and why it was a challenge · Their Innovation – the innovative solution they proposed · Lessons for you – insights for you on how to apply their innovation to your life Split in to 8 categories, you can find inspiration from: Artists - e.g. David Bowie, J K Rowling, Pablo Picasso Business Leaders - e.g. Jeff Bezos, Levi Strauss, Sidney Bernstein Genius' - e.g. Beethoven, Michelangelo, Shakespeare Inventors - e.g. Johannes Gutenberg, Louis Braille, Thomas Edison Mavericks - e.g. Anita Roddick, Nelson, Steve Jobs Pioneers - e.g. Dick Fosbury, Florence Nightingale, Marconi Scientists - e.g. Alexander Fleming, Charles Darwin, Galilleo Visionaries - e.g. John F Kennedy, Oprah Winfrey, Walt Disney Think Like An Innovator is full of inspiring insights to transform your working day.

76 inspiring business lessons from the world's greatest thinkers and innovators

Think Like An Innovator

Do you want to have great ideas? Do you want to break out of the rut of conventional thinking? Would you like to be a genius? Would presenting brilliant ideas help in your job, career and social life? How to be a Brilliant Thinker will help you to achieve all these ideals, by helping you to think in powerful new ways. It shows you how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation and other areas so that you become much more creative. You will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve your memory, sell your ideas and win arguments. It is packed with practical methods that you can put to immediate use, backed up by exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics and illustrations.

Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions

How to be a Brilliant Thinker

Des Machale

A collection of our favourite fascinating words. It includes cunning curiosities, remarkable rarities, wonderful words and tremendous trivia. All the words are in use or have been in use in the English language. Most of the entries are serious and educational but occasionally we have sprinkled in something unexpected and facetious. Some sample entries: ARNOLD is a boy's name which has two anagrams which are also boys' names - ROLAND and RONALD. DESSERTS is the longest word which forms another word when spelled backwards, STRESSED. IGNORAMUS - nowadays, a stupid person, but originally a jury verdict meaning 'we do not know' from the Latin ignoramus. OPOSSUM the only North American marsupial gets its name from the native American Powhatan language where it means white dog. Skunk, coyote, raccoon, moose, woodchuck, and caribou are other animals whose names come from native American tongues. QUEEN would be the first word in the dictionary if our alphabet was ordered to match the QWERTY keyboard layout.

A Collection of Curious, Fascinating Or Funny Words and Their Stories.

1234 Wacky, Witty and Wonderful Words

Des MacHale

Paul Sloane and Des MacHale--the wily puzzle masters who have written several lateral thinking collections--are back with more tear-your-hair-out challenges. And once again, the purpose of their devious conundrums is to force solvers to think outside of the box. Instead of jumping to obvious conclusions, players have to ask lots of questions, use their imagination, piece together the subtlest clues, and come at the problem from a variety of perspectives. Here’s how to do it: one person, who knows the solution, takes questions. The answers help narrow down the possible explanations--and the more logic, creativity, and sheer determination that go into the queries, the better the chance of success!

Cunning Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Are you good at thinking outside the box? Do you consider yourself logical? And, most important of all, do you love a good challenge? Then this Mensa collection of devious brain-bafflers will entertain you -- and your friends and family -- for hours.

Captivating Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Develop lateral thinking skills and improve brain power. The goal is to find a logical explanation for what appears to be an illogical situation. Do the puzzles with a friend, taking turns being puzzle setter and solver. By asking yes-or-no questions the solver attempts to find the solution within 20 minutes. One of "The Year's best puzzle books."--Games World of Puzzles. 96 pages, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Puzzles to Challenge Your Mind

Improve Your Lateral Thinking

"We never grow tired of good news how come' mysteries of this kind....These story brainteasers are often solved in groups...with solvers asking yes-or-no questions of the puzzle poser (the one holding this book, perhaps). A novel feature of this volume is a Clues' section containing sample questions and answers, allowing you to play along solitaire."--Games World of Puzzles. 96 pages, 24 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Great Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Add a little math to your lateral thinking! Paul Sloane and Des MacHale, the crown princes of lateral thinking, have provided a cool twist to test solvers' skills. They present you with mathematical conundrums . . . but instead of requiring brute calculating power, each puzzle relies upon a clever insight or unexpected shortcut. You'll get a brain-busting workout you'll never forget!

Mathematical Lateral Thinking Puzzles

In the world of perplexing lateral thinking puzzles, completely normal situations veer off into the world of the bizarre, confounding, and surreal. Readers decide which facts are important, which ones are red herrings, and which ones have yet to be told. 20 illustrations.

Perplexing Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Presents a collection of lateral thinking puzzles that also include clues on how to solve the puzzle and the answers.

Tricky Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Lateral thinking is the key to solving these tantalizing puzzles. Packed with hundreds of brain teasers and mathematical problems, the book will test kids' powers of logic, and patience! "The logic, reasoning, and calculating required by the problems...will delight and torment puzzle fans."--Booklist. "Ninety-one how come' mysteries....We never get enough of these."--Games.

Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Presents a collection of puzzles that use lateral thinking skills.

Brain-Busting Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Edward J. Harshman

A man writes the same number, and nothing else, on 20 sheets of paper. Why? To figure this out--and hundreds of other mind-bending lateral puzzles, too--you'll have to really fire up your brain and imagination. At first, it may not seem as if there's enough information to come up with a solution. But look more closely; there's always more than meets the eye. Check your assumptions, ask good questions, retune your mind, separate the facts from the red herrings, and the answers will come.

Classic Lateral Thinking Puzzles

A collection of puzzles that will challenge the best puzzle solver.

Colorful Lateral Thinking Puzzles

As Albert Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge," and every puzzle here encourages youngsters to think creatively and find ingenious solutions--not just parrot facts they've been spoon-fed.

Sit and Solve Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Not every problem has an obvious solution. Utilize the power of lateral thinking to think imaginatively and creatively to tackle everyday problems in a new, fresh way. Lateral thinking is about re-thinking your approach to problem solving and using an indirect method to come up with innovative results. But how easy is it to do it? In Lateral Thinking for Every Day, acclaimed writer Paul Sloane clearly explains how you can benefit from using a lateral thinking approach. Using inspiring examples from great lateral thinkers including Lady Gaga, Elon Musk and Tim Berners-Lee, this collection of practical tips, techniques, examples and challenges is guaranteed to help you deploy powerful reasoning techniques, become more persuasive and convincing and to come up with fresh solutions to creative challenges.

Extraordinary Solutions to Ordinary Problems

Lateral Thinking for Every Day

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. Can you figure out these problems from only the vaguest details and yes-or-no questions? It's challenging, imaginative fun. This revised edition features entirely new illustrations!

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