Provides a framework for achievement through daily acts of help or contribution.

Optimise your thinking, decision making and problem solving with the inventor of the term 'lateral thinking'.

A work based on 50 interviews with men and women - Chris Bonington, Mark McCormack, Terence Conran and Malcolm Forbes - who have been outstandingly successful in a variety of fields. It analyzes their different paths to success.

No matter how you look, if you have a mind that's fascinating, creative, exciting - if you're a good thinker - you can be beautiful. This book shows how, by applying lateral and parallel thinking skills, you can improve your mind. By learning how to listen, make a point, and manoeuvre a discussion, you can become more appealing and more beautiful.

Shows that good thinking depends on a simple five-stage process that anyone can learn. This book offers advice for those who need to be able to respond to and deal with a vast range of situations at work and in life quickly, efficiently and intelligently.

Introduces a framework for making creative, smart decisions in business based on embracing company values - the focus for the 21st century. This book offers advice on decision-making and better thinking practices, and highlights your strengths while pinpointing areas for improvement, to help you and your company become more successful.

People spend vast amounts of money to maintain beauty, and yet few of us devote similar efforts to be interesting. This book reveals how playing with ideas, making connections, speculating and using the imagination are at the heart of being an interesting person. It includes seventy exercises that will help you bring humour to everyday situations.

Outlines games and exercises, built around random words chosen from a list, to help encourage creativity and lateral thinking.

The world is full of problems and conflicts. So why can we not solve them? This book examines why we think the way we do from a historical perspective and uses some of the author's famous thinking techniques combined with fresh ideas to show us how to change the way we think.

Meetings are a crucial part of our lives, but too often they go nowhere and waste valuable time. This title shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick, decisive results. It presents the Six Hats method which is a simple technique based on the brain's different modes of thinking.

The greatest gift we can give our children is the ability to think for themselves. This book shows how any parent can develop the thinking skills of their children. It offers techniques for coping with the many problems and opportunities that lie in wait for your child.

In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination. This title shows us how to look at problems from a variety of angles and in so doing offer up solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective.

Most of our everyday decision-making tends to be confrontational. Whether in large meetings, one-to-one or in our own heads, opposite view points are pitted against each other. Ultimately, there must be a winner and a loser. This title challenges this 'rock logic' of rigid categories and point-scoring arguments which is destructive and exhausting.

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