Paul Sloane (author)

Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane
Nationality British
Alma mater Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Occupation Trainer, Author
Website http://www.destination-innovation.com

Paul Sloane is an author and a corporate public speaker on innovation. He was educated at St Mary's Catholic Academy Blackpool and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He worked for IBM before joining Ashton-Tate in 1984 as UK Marketing Director. He went on to become UK Managing Director and Acting Joint European Managing Director.[1] In 1994 he became VP International for Mathsoft.[2] In 2001 he was appointed CEO of Monactive Ltd, a software tools company. [3] He is the author of over 20 books of lateral thinking puzzles published by Sterling Publishing.[4]

Selected publications

  • Lateral Thinking Puzzlers (Sterling Publishing), ISBN 0-8069-8226-8
  • Test your Lateral Thinking IQ (Sterling Publishing), ISBN 0-8069-0684-7
  • Intriguing Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Sterling Publishing), ISBN 0-8069-4252-5
  • The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills (Kogan Page), ISBN 0-7494-4797-4
  • The Innovative Leader (Kogan Page), ISBN 0-7494-5001-0
  • How to be a Brilliant Thinker (Kogan Page), ISBN 978-0-7494-5506-4
  • A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing (Kogan Page), ISBN 978-0-7494-6307-6
  • Mathematical Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Sterling Publishing), ISBN 978-1-4549-1167-8
  • Think Like an Innovator (Pearson PLC), ISBN 978-1-2921-4223-4
  • Sloane, Paul. "Medicine can Teach Business and Government a Lesson in Innovation". Innovation Management. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  • Sloane, Paul. "City A.M. The Frustration of Innovation; Lessons from History". City A.M. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
  • Sloane, Paul. "Inside a Corporate Innovation Camp". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on 18 July 2016. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
  • Sloane, Paul. "Eleven Reasons for the UK's Poor Productivity". Huffington Post UK. Retrieved 2017-08-11.

References

  1. ↑ Ashton-Tate Press Release 15 Feb 1990
  2. ↑ MathSoft acquires Statsci Europe 7 July 1998.
  3. ↑ Computer Weekly article Feb 2002.
  4. ↑ List of Classic Lateral Thinking Puzzles.
  • Paul Sloane web site
  • "Interview: Learn to Think Differently". Idea Connection. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  • Tedx Talk; Are you Open-Minded? April 2016
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